Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are going without pay; millions of Americans who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for food are set to miss payments starting this weekend; and air-traffic staffing shortages are causing groundstops across the country.
Congressional Democrats are under real pressure to cave — and they aren’t. And that’s genuinely surprising the progressives that pushed Democrats to leverage the government funding fight over expiring health care subsidies in the first place.
“We’ve heard a lot from Democrats saying that we are in unprecedented times, right? And then that our democracy is at stake,” Britt Jacovich, the deputy communications director at MoveOn, told NOTUS. “This feels like Democrats actually acting like it, acting like our institutions are on fire, acting like people’s lives are on the line.”