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Well, President Trump has chalked up another win with the victory of a continuing resolution in the Senate. We'll get to all that in a moment. First, if you want more from The Ben Shapiro Show and The Daily Wire, it's time to become a Daily Wire Plus member. Get member-exclusive shows, ad-free streaming, early access to our new releases.
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All right, so Chuck Schumer had made noises a little bit earlier this week about the possibility of holding up a continuing resolution that would fund the government all the way until September. And it was sort of unclear why he was doing that. Strategically, he had no ground to stand on because after all,
If the United States Senate, the Democratic minority, decided that they were going to filibuster the continuing resolution, there would be a government shutdown. And the Republicans would correctly say they had the votes to prevent the government shutdown, and it was Democrats who had actually created the government shutdown.
At which point, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats would be blamed for everything. It was a gigantic unforced error by Chuck Schumer. Well, yesterday he reversed himself. Democrats are, of course, very upset at Chuck Schumer because they believe that it is their duty to obstruct literally everything the Republicans do. Now, to be fair to Schumer, it was a no-win situation.
On the one hand, if the continuing resolution goes forward, then President Trump continues to unleash the executive branch on itself to use Doge to cut, to slash, to burn, to fire. He had the ability to do that because the continuing resolution basically just says the government is going to continue to run at the same funding levels it has previously run.
And this continuing resolution did not, in fact, include specific designations of where funding ought to go within each department, which would sort of force Trump to spend the money in each department. Instead, it has a broad overview. Spend X dollars at HHS. Spend X dollars at Department of Defense, for example.
And that allowed enormous discretion inside the executive branch for President Trump to continue to allow Doge to do its work. This is what Democrats were objecting to. However, if they had gone into government shutdown, then President Trump would have had the ability to determine who was an essential worker and who was not an essential worker. because he's the president.
And that would have meant more firings. So Chuck Schumer got himself stuck in this box canyon. His radical left-wing base was very upset with him for not standing up to President Trump by filibustering the continuing resolution. Here was Jasmine Crockett, who's kind of the new AOC. AOC's lost some steam, and now she's been replaced in the public mind of the crazed left as sort of the hot new thing.
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