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“House Democrats erupted into apoplexy,” Axios reported on March 14, “after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he would support Republicans’ stopgap government funding measure.”

With their surrender, Schumer and nine other Senate Democrats enabled passage of a “continuing resolution” that kicked the government’s budget and debt cans down the road yet again, this time through September 30.

Schumer’s case for a yes vote was both practical (without the resolution, the federal government would have gone into a fake “shutdown” and its “non-essential” functions would have been shuttered until a deal was reached)........

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