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Carl Higbie was absolutely right to call out the Democrat machine for engineering who would be allowed to scuttle or salvage this latest funding fight — what happened in the Senate was not accidental, it was orchestrated. Conservatives watching this circus know it: the leadership picks safe players, protects vulnerable members, and sacrifices working Americans to preserve political narratives.
A bipartisan push in the Senate moved a stopgap funding measure forward after weeks of damage from a self-inflicted shutdown, but the vote exposed a clear split inside the Democratic conference. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other progressives publicly opposed the deal while a small cluster of Democrats joined Republicans to advance it, underscoring that the split was as much strategic as it was policy-driven.
Those defections weren’t random. Senators like John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto, Angus King, Dick Durbin, Maggie Hassan, Tim Kaine and Jacky Rosen broke with the more left-leaning wing and voted to reopen the government — the exact kind of centrist picks the Democratic leadership wants on-camera when they need cover. Voters should note which senators decided optics and party survival mattered more than sticking to the hard-line negotiating posture that triggered this mess.
It gets worse: the maneuvering was intentionally shielded from political risk, with the party’s operatives effectively choosing players who didn’t face immediate electoral peril, a fact that enraged progressives and sparked real calls for leadership changes. This isn’t governing — it’s political triage, and the damage falls on taxpayers, furloughed workers and the most vulnerable while the leadership plays chess with other people’s lives.
Conservative voices on the ground have been blunt about the cruelty of this spectacle; Republican lawmakers and commentators pointed out that Democrats have repeatedly used shutdown brinksmanship as leverage while pretending to care about everyday Americans. Even the idea of emergency relief being floated as a photo-op — instead of real, routine budgeting responsibility — underlines how Washington’s gamesmanship has replaced common-sense governance.
Enough of the excuses — Republicans must keep shining a light on the hypocrisy and force clear votes so voters know exactly who chose politics over people. Hardworking Americans deserve accountability, not managed spin from a party machine that thinks it can pick and choose which of its members will save face while everyone else pays the price.
