I'm glad you understand that the path the Republicans chose to follow was one that would require them to negotiate with the Democrats.
The part you stop at is the realization that they refused to negotiate with the Democrats.
Again, they could have gone with a simple continuing resolution that only requires a simple majority, but they didn't do that. They went with a resolution that requires 60 votes, which they don't have.
Which means to get to 60 they have to negotiate with Democrats to get the votes. Then promptly refused to negotiate and shut the government down.
See? you believe his lies and don't demand things like facts and evidence or critically think about them at all.
But let's pretend that Trump & Vance aren't lying about what the Democrats started their negotiations with. Trump & Vance are lying, but let's pretend that they're not.
They could have passed a simple continuing resolution to keep things running because that requires a simple majority.
A thing they didn't need the Democrats to do.
AND THEN proceed to negotiate with the Democrats on what should be included in the bill.
Instead, they pushed a bill out of the House KNOWING it was going to get hung up in the Senate because the Democrats wouldn't support it.
We're here because your boy wants the government shut down.
