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If there is one thing Democrats eager to tout their accomplishments in the months before the midterm elections don’t need, it’s another logjam over funding the government.
Senate negotiations on a House-passed temporary spending bill to prevent a partial government shutdown on Saturday, which were still dragging on as this newsletter went out, have given Republicans a national platform for demands covering topics like vaccine mandates, an uproar in the right-wing media over a misleading report that claimed the government planned to pay for crack pipes and a constitutional amendment requiring balanced budgets.
