The corporate press always blame government shutdowns on Republicans. It is one of the tools they use to prevent Congress from using Regular Order in the appropriations and budget process.
RELATED: More on the use of Regular Order HERE.
The Democrats are desperate to stop the Congress form voting up or down on a standalone Ukraine funding bill because they do not want to go on the record voting on such a bill in case the Ukraine issue blows up in their face. If Ukraine military aide is part of funding the whole government, they can say that they were just avoiding a government shut down.
The Democrats are also engaging in this behavior because they do not want Congress to use Regular Order. Instead of having the appropriate congressional committees go over the budgets of various spending programs and agencies line by line, they want to just pass a Continuing Resolution (CR) that funds the entire government with large increases in spending in a single up or down vote with no oversight. A CR that includes all of the Democrats spending priorities, with no defunding of agencies that are illegally resisting constitutionally mandated congressional oversight.
The talking points Democrats put out is below:
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I’ll say it again, here: #NeverKevin (as in Kevin McCarthy, RINO, detestable example). I called my friend Jarome Bell a few days ago, who I met awhile back in 2022 during a fundraising campaign as he was running for State Senate Virginia. He was the one who said that the America First Movement had a saying: #NeverKevin. Enough said.