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Yet Again, the Democratic Party is Wasting No Time Failing You.
The Party of controlled opposition is about to allow Trump to get his budget passed, simply to avoid a government shut down.
With each passing election, the Democratic Party appears to get worse.
It’s incredible, really, how their ability to one up themselves in terms of disappointment can only be rivaled by that of Republicans in their efforts to stay in the headlines. It’s constant failure that they all try and paint as anything but, and unfortunately but unsurprisingly that trend continues two months into the Presidency of Donald Trump.
Leave it to the Democratic Party, and Chuck Schumer in particular, to waste no time capitulating.
Carl Hulse and Catie Edmondson with The New York Times write:
“Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, broke with his party on Thursday and lined up enough Democrats to advance a Republican-written bill to keep federal funding flowing past a midnight Friday deadline, arguing that Democrats could not allow a government shutdown that many of them have demanded.
During a private luncheon with Democrats, Mr. Schumer stunned many of his colleagues by announcing that he planned to vote to…
