'Full of despair': Senate Dems look to regroup after losing shutdown fight

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : " Some Democrats are now afraid that they inadvertently gave Republicans a playbook for government funding fights in the future: Cut Democrats out of the negotiations, muscle legislation through the House with only GOP votes and bet they can jam the Senate.
32% : Some Democratic senators are floating holding a series of rallies and town halls to try to build public support for opposing Trump.
21% : Democrats say they need to have a blunt conversation about how much political risk they are willing to absorb to fight Trump, including blocking unrelated legislation or symbolic opposition to nominees.
21% : Schumer has defended his strategy, arguing that as leader of the caucus he has to make politically painful decisions to protect both his members and the country from what he viewed as a worse alternative: The possibility of a prolonged shutdown with Trump and Musk in the driver's seat.

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