Schumer made the smart move.

[Terry_M]

131. Short Term vs. Long Term

Your points are valid - but they are basically all focused on avoiding the short term pain. For the week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks before republicans would cave. Yes Trump wouldn't cave on this but there would be republicans in the house getting more and more pressure every day to get things moving again.

How do your valid points about avoiding short term pain compare against the long term pain of approving the CR in it's current form - the permanent cuts, the weakening of congressional authority around the stupid tariff games, the weakening of the hands democrats will have in 6 months on the broader budget spending and the increase in the common perception of party weakness that's playing out here, and in the media?

It feels very much like a long term vision/strategy was sacrificed to avoid short term pain in a way that could lead to more cumulative bad, just, less right now.