Schumer caves on shutdown battle with GOP- Washington Examiner

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Schumer argued that a shutdown would have allowed Trump to "cherry pick which parts of the government to reopen" and which employees were essential and nonessential, further fueling his administration's endeavor to slash federal employees. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said on Thursday that he was open to giving Democrats an amendment vote on their short-term proposal, but only after they help Republicans advance their version.
35% : "There are no good choices," said Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), whose state is home to many federal workers who have been laid off under the federal workforce cuts by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
33% : "A shutdown would give Donald Trump the keys to the city, the country.
31% : But the competing argument among Democrats was that Trump is already flouting the law with uniliteral cuts to the federal workforce, agencies, and programs.
22% : Who's in charge of the White House?" Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) equated siding with Republicans as creating a "slush fund for Donald Trump" that "may give him unbridled discretion" with spending authorities to undermine Congress's power of the purse.
16% : "As bad as passing the CR is, allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option," Schumer said in remarks on the Senate floor.
7% : "They are both potential licenses for illegal action on the part of Donald Trump," Blumenthal added.
6% : "We are in a perverse bizarro land where we're having to decide between letting Donald Trump wreck the government this way or wreck the government that way," added Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the No. 4 Democrat in Senate leadership.

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