I have mixed feelings on the CR. It was a lose-lose situation for the democrats and for our democracy!
I originally wanted to see a protest against what MAGA has been doing to our country and do a shutdown. The GOP wants to not be bipartisan and run things only their way, then make them run it alone! But then I heard Schumer's reasonings. I understand what Schumer was saying. If the government shut down, the republicans would have been in no hurry to get it reopened - no off ramp. Once people started missing their SS payments there would have been a huge hatred towards the democrats. I hate to say it, but I think democrats are our only hope for making it out of the mess we're in. Democrats need to take control of at lease one of the houses in 2026! They have to or we will not be getting out of this mess for decades! The more people suffer from a shutdown, the more the republicans would have benefited.
Also, when in shutdown, they could have deemed almost all federal employees "non-essential" and gotten rid of them all! That would have been catastrophic to the country. That might be hyperbolic, but who knows how far Trump would have taken it? At least, as devastating as how MAGA is going about it, employees have a legal path they can follow. I doubt that there is a legal path they could take during a shutdown.
I was thinking maybe have a short term CR for 60 days and during that time, congress could have made a new bipartisan budget.
