President Trump has chalked up another win.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made noises earlier this week about the possibility of holding up a continuing resolution that would fund the government all the way until September.
It was unclear why he was doing that. Strategically, he had no ground on which to stand because, after all, if the Democratic minority in the United States Senate decided to filibuster the continuing resolution, there would be a government shutdown. Then, the Republicans would correctly name the Democrats as having actually created the government shutdown, at which point Schumer and the Democrats would be blamed for everything.
It was a gigantic unforced error by Schumer. Then, on Thursday, he reversed. Democrats, of course, are very upset at Schumer because they believe that it is their duty to obstruct literally everything the Republicans do.
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