Dems seem to be having a hard time focusing on the CR bill before them. Evidently they care more about illegal aliens than U.S. citizens being furloughed by their obstruction. The news says negotiations will continue through the weekend. Chucky's crew has their U.S. hostages to think of now.
Back in 2013............................
Four years ago, Republican lawmakers leveraged the threat of a government shutdown to try and win a fight over health care. Republicans said they would not vote for a spending bill (or a debt-limit increase) unless it delayed or defunded Obamacare, something Barack Obama obviously would block. The government wound up shutting down for two weeks in October before the issue was resolved, and at the time, Democratic lawmakers excoriated the GOP. Nancy Pelosi called the shutdown gambit “
an unthinkable tactic,” and labeled those pushing for it “legislative arsonists.” Chuck Schumer vowed not to use it: “
No matter how strongly one feels about an issue, you shouldn’t hold millions of people hostage . . . That’s wrong and we can’t give into that,” he told the New York Observer. “We could say, ‘we’re shutting down the government, we’re not going to raise the debt ceiling, until you pass immigration reform.’ It would be governmental chaos,” Schumer said a week later.
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