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Congressional Republicans are Wasting Time Instead of Delivering for the American People Yet Again.
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And it'll work. Democrats will compromise, Republicans will be able to govern from the minority, the public will lose some vital public service to another round of budget cuts, and then we'll do this again in another few years. And it'll probably cost them, too. Just like Gingrich after '94 and McCarthy after '18, they'll end up squandering their position in both House and Senate. Democrats will come in with a mandate to make sure this never happens again.
And the Democrats will have an opportunity to change the rules of the game, so Republicans can't hold the government hostage indefinitely, and they'll... just not do it. They'll have the ability to stack the deck in their favor, with DC Statehood to claim two free Senate seats or an expansion of the number of House seats to dilute gerrymandering or just budgetary rules that automatically run continuing resolutions when Congress deadlocks, and they... won't. They'll have an opportunity to add new liberal judges to the courts, but they'll pass.
Then the 2026 midterms will suck. People will be angry. The majority party will get flushed out in a referendum on Government Generally, and the anti-government types will crawl back into Congress again. And we'll be back here again, shouting "VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!" while the country falls another rung down into full blown fascism.
Incidentally, you are never going to see a liberal caucus shut down the government in Texas or Florida. They can do all the crazy ass shit they want down there, but god forbid anyone interrupt a budgetary motion.