There is a well-founded bit of conventional wisdom that government shutdowns never really work for the side making demands to keep things open. There are many such cases.
“I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to remind Democrat colleagues that taking basic government functions hostage for partisan demands never pays,” Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Wednesday on X.
And McConnell has actually been pretty consistent on this point, even dating back to when his side was arguably forcing the shutdowns.
But there is growing evidence that the current shutdown is somewhat different from its predecessors.
Democrats might never get what they’re asking for. But they seem to have significantly more leverage than the side refusing to vote for government funding usually does.
A new poll Thursday from the Washington Post tells the tale.
Democrats are the ones who withh
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