Sheldon Whitehouse understands why some of his fellow Dems voted to avert shutdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : So what we'd be doing is probably voting first to bring the Department of Defense back out, then voting to bring Homeland Security back out, then voting to bring veterans back out -- while they went through other agencies of government they don't like so much and said that this part of the agency, that part of the agency, is unessential and, therefore, we're going to reduce in force all the employees.
43% : " He added: "Voting for a bill that further empowers Trump to tank the economy and threaten our allies and take away benefits from veterans is not a good way of doing that.
35% : But certainly, the Senate minority leader is right that Trump owns the chaos in Washington right now.

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