"blueprint" in decades.
"Clean CR" is bullshit. What they want is to implement that horrific piece of legislation. But they don't actually want to "own" it.
CNN’s resident number cruncher Harry Enten reckons Donald Trump’s signature “One Big Beautiful Bill” is the most hated piece of legislation Congress has passed in decades.
“I went back into the archives and looked at every piece of major legislation passed since 1990,” Enten told Erin Burnett on OutFront Tuesday night. “The most unpopular bill that was passed? Guess what it is… It’s the Big Beautiful Bill.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-data-guru-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-is-the-most-unpopular-legislation-in-decades/
Seriously. They are actually looking for cover. They want to be able to say "If it was that bad, the Democrats could have stopped it."
That's why they won't go nuclear and own this 100%.
I am banking that Trump will cave the week before Thanksgiving. Keeping House members out of D.C. so they can't talk to each other may be the best way to implement the regime's will to maintain the stalemate, but having them back home, being hammered by constituents, may prove to be a "fatal" mistake.
In any case, it will last into early November because the regime is terrified of the BLS numbers for October. Remember, the 150,000 Federal workers who took the "it's not a buyout" buyout were technically employed through 9/30. Those numbers would hit the October report that would be released in early November if the government shutdown ended quickly. Along with the other job losses that are mounting, they are looking at a bloodbath -- and if the government shutdown were to end, that news would come right before people are getting together with their families for Thanksgiving.
So, they will time things to keep the jobs report out of the news before Thanksgiving, but have the government reopened to send people to their Thanksgivings with some good news.
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