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Remember last year when a leading congressional Democrat admitted that her party was exploiting its “leverage” by shutting off funding for government programs? Now along comes a similar moment of candor from another House Democrat, who acknowledges the consequences of his party’s latest power play. During last year’s shutdown, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D., Mass.) admitted that she and her Democratic colleagues were exploiting the funding lapse to advance their agenda: I mean, shutdowns are terrible and of course there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage times we have. The leverage ploy failed and Rep. Clark was left with nothing to do but issue a nasty press release. This time around, Democrats are using the convenience and safety of air travel as the leverage point in their latest shutdown gambit, and at
least one member is acknowledging that the partisan effort is not cost-free. Andrew Solender reports for Axios on Democrats’ continuing refusal to fund the Department of Homeland Security:
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