Democrats Demand GOP Betray Voters to Fund Government


With government funding set to run out at midnight on September 30, Republicans and Democrats are nowhere near a deal, and a shutdown looks imminent. While Republicans have proposed and passed a clean continuing resolution (CR), Democrats have demanded that Republicans reverse all of their legislative victories from this year to keep the government open – effectively requiring that the GOP undo exactly what the American people voted for last year.

Late last week, the House passed its CR to keep the government open until November 21 – meaning that all funding would continue at current levels until that date. But Senate Democrats used the Senate filibuster rule to block that bill, setting up a standoff that could send the government into a shutdown next week. Any funding bill will need at least seven Democrat votes to clear the 60-vote threshold.

Notably, the new CR that Senate Democrats are currently rejecting would keep funding levels virtually the same as they were under the prior CR that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and nine other Senate Democrats voted for back in March.

Schumer took an immense amount of criticism from the party’s left flank for that vote, and the blowback appears to have had its intended effect. Schumer has now made progressive ultimatums the price for any Democrat support for a funding bill.

Specifically, Schumer and congressional Democrats are insisting on a permanent extension of expanded Obamacare subsidies, a rollback of the Medicaid reforms in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) passed earlier this year, and restrictions on the president’s ability to rein in wasteful federal spending.

Each of these demands is worth examining in turn, because they all reveal how unwilling Democrats are to accept the outcome of elections and make abundantly clear that if there is a shutdown, Democrats will be entirely to blame for it.

First, Democrats are demanding that Republicans permanently extend Biden-era expanded Obamacare subsidies – a policy so radical that Democrats couldn’t pass it even when they had control of Congress.
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