Okay, folks—we have ourselves some shutdown theater going on from Congressional Democrats. We were on the verge of a government shutdown last week. On December 8, at midnight, the government was set to run out of money. A two-week continuing resolution was introduced and passed. While 14 Democrats did vote for it in the House and Senate Minority Leader helped it cruise to passage in the Senate with an 81-14 vote, the Left is hitting the brakes on more CRs. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said he and Sen. Schumer have signaled that they’re not going to pass another temporary spending bill, even if its clean. House Democrats didn’t lift a finger to help Republicans pass it, though they knew they had the votes. Republicans were really not happy about the two-week CReither, though the conservative wing conceded it had enough votes to pass. It was either this or an epic logrolling session in the future. It was the lesser of two evils.
Hoyer says he’s not that confident Republicans have the votes to continue this, which us why he and Schumer are reportedly putting their foot down, forcing the GOP to act on bills that have been stalled. Roll Call has more:
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