The Democratic Party's contingent in the Senate finally rallied on Thursday and appeared for a brief moment to be on the brink of putting up its first real show of resistance under a second Trump administration.
With Friday's deadline for a government shutdown creeping closer, Democratic senators came out one after another to signal opposition to the Republican bill approving continued federal funding, while cutting nondefense spending for the remainder of the 2024 fiscal year.
But it was little more than a political gambit the party hoped would both avert a shutdown and allow Democrats to put their own doomed 30-day proposal up for a vote — a Resistance In Name Only.
News broke Thursday evening that Minority Leader Chuck Schumer indicated to his caucus that he'll vote for cloture on the GOP bill, allowing it to avoid a filibuster. Others will join him, while a few in swing states and hardline progressives may not.
"Republicans do not have the votes," Schumer had falsely said just a day earlier.
His decision rejected criticism from the House, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who named the ploy on Twitter and ridiculed members for thinking that voting to override the filibuster on the Republican plan would end in any other outcome besides the passage of the House GOP continuing resolution (CR).
"Nothing clean about this CR. It's dirty," added Eugene Vindman, a newly-elected Democrat from a swing district in Virginia.
Those comments weren't made in a vacuum.
House and Senate Democrats alike are under a deluge of calls and in-person demands from their voters to show a spine and block Elon Musk's DOGE efforts from carving apart the federal government.
Republicans, meanwhile, are facing increasing pressure to explain how they'll cut trillions from the federal budget without scaling back Medicaid or Social Security.
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