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[quote=Anonymous]Congress has the power of the purse, and for government work/funding to go on, they must authorize a budget. It’s literally their only job. Neither party right now has enough votes to do it on their own, because the margin is narrow and the Republicans (the majority party at the moment) have enough people who won’t go along with anything. The Democrats at the moment have good enough internal discipline that they will walk together. So with this, what we’ve seen is that for anything to be passed it actually needs to be a majority Democrat vote with a few Republicans BUT the Republican speaker determines what bills can be voted on.They all talk a good game about being bipartisan, but everyone, Republicans in particular, worry about the optics of “letting the other side” get something they want so almost nothing of substance gets to the floor.

In modern times, most shutdowns have been precipitated by boneheaded moves by the Republicans. Democrats try more broadly to keep it afloat. They have also internalized that the American people really don’t like shutdowns and it tends to blow back on the party that forced the issue. This is not to be read as an endorsement of either party’s policies, just how they move.

The former and future President has not always grasped the implications of his actions and also tends to shoot from the hip. That’s all I’ll say here until this moves into the political forum. [/quote]

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