Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
Either Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer read the tea leaves and figured out that his fortune didn’t look so hot for him, or he reread his old social media posts and speeches and remembered what he said about government shutdowns during the Biden administration, when the Democrats had control of the Senate.
Whichever way, he’s suddenly had a eureka moment on what Republicans were calling the #SchumerShutdown — and is getting on board with the GOP’s continuing resolution that would keep funding the government for another six months and avoid a shutdown on Friday, calling it a “Hobson’s choice.”
Schumer and the Democrats had previously hoped that the Republicans wouldn’t have the votes in the House of Representatives to clear the plan, according to ABC News, particularly with a slim majority and libertarian-leaning GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky always a reliable no vote …
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