Shutdown Drama
As MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills recorded this week's MOMochat podcast, Chuck Schumer announced that the Republicans did not have the votes to pass the continuing resolution that would keep the government funded. It appeared that all the phone calls and emails from the activist base had struck a nerve, and that the Senate Democrats were hanging tight against a bad bill that would officially give up the legislature's power of the purse.
After they recorded the episode, some journalists reported that Schumer's announcement was a form of "kabuki theater," produced because…
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