No. of Recommendations: 4
"Plan Steve" has been offered, more than once, in threads about this shutdown: don't filibuster the GOP bill. Dems vote "present" not aye or nay. Let the GOP wear the consequences. If the mob likes the consequences, then the Dems need to reevaluate their values. If the mob doesn't like it, the Dems have an entire year to rub it in, before people go to the polls. As it is now, the Dems are hurting a lot more people then they would help, if they prevailed.
I partly agree with you, but with different tactics. The current CR funds the govt only until 11/21. So let it pass, force Mike Johnson to reconvene the House and swear in Adelita Grijalva, pass the discharge petition for the Epstein files, and then shut the government down again on 11/21 to demand restoration of the ACA subsidies. This assumes that congress won't pass its regular budget for FY26 by 11/21, which is a virtual certainty.
