Shutdown Thaw: Lawmakers Now Budging After 37 Days of Gridlock

The Schumer Shutdown is still in full swing, but something has happened. After 37 record-breaking days of the federal government shutdown, there may be some glimmerings of a deal. It's not a deal, not yet, but it may be the beginning of a deal. Fox News' Chad Pergram reports:

Let’s face it:

Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are skittish about the shutdown. They’re agonizing about aviation. There’s increasing worry among bipartisan lawmakers about federal workers not getting paid and the cessation of emergency food benefits known as SNAP. Everyone wants a deal. However, no one knows where to find one.
Any agreement will be about the math. But lawmakers are locked in this shutdown box and can’t find the combination to escape.

Aviation, yes, is doubtless a major factor. We are less than three weeks away from the Thanksgiving travel rush, many American families are planning holiday reunions, and having flights cancelled and delayed due to what voters will (rightly) see as government inaction just won't do.

But Mr. Pergram is wrong about one thing: Everyone has known, all along, where to find a deal. The Senate could simply pass the no-changes continuing resolution (CR) already passed by the House. Democrats are blocking that CR. That's the logjam; that and nothing else.

The problem is, they may have waited too long.

Republicans have long known that the House-passed interim spending bill (from September 19) simply doesn’t work anymore. Even if the Senate were to align with the House, that legislation only funds the government through November 21. And that would deposit Congress right back where it started on October 1 with a shutdown.
So Republicans began eyeing a longer temporary spending bill running through late January.
"We've lost five weeks. So the November 21st, deadline no longer makes a lot of sense," said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., referring to the end date of the original spending bill – still not passed by the Senate.
But Republicans need buy-in from Democrats to break a filibuster on any bill to terminate the record-breaking shutdown.

Well, let's ask the guy who let the whole thing happen:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was circumspect when asked what Democrats might support after a lengthy lunch meeting of Democratic senators on Tuesday.
"We had a very good caucus and we’re exploring all the options," was Schumer’s anodyne reply.

Senator Schumer (D-NY) is great at anodyne replies. He's even better at layering on the buncombe.

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The fact is that Democrats may well have deliberately kept this shutdown going, at least until after last Tuesday's elections. There can be little doubt that the shutdown drove the turnout of Washington, D.C. government workers who make their homes and register to vote in northern Virginia, and that may have helped the Democrats pull out wins there. Even in New York City, the "democratic socialist" Zohran Mamdani may have gotten a boost from the city's dependency class with the SNAP shutdown. Hindsight, granted, is always 20-20, but it would be no surprise at all to learn that Senate Democrats were talking about these things in back rooms somewhere.

Now, though, things have changed. Many more people are about to be affected by travel problems during the upcoming holiday. Maybe it's cynical to think that Democrats played it this way on purpose, and are now sounding hopeful about a deal with that election behind us.

But that's sure what it looks like from here.

Editor’s Note: The Schumer Shutdown is here. Rather than put the American people first, Chuck Schumer and the radical Democrats forced a government shutdown for healthcare for illegals. They own this.

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