tonight we're gonna party like its 1789
![Here’s what occurred. It has been widely assumed that the group of eight mostly centrist Senate Democrats, who have been looking to broker a hollow deal on Republican terms, were free-lancing. [highlighted] In fact, they were acting with the express approval of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and were reporting to him daily.[/highlighted]
At Thursday’s meeting, they told their caucus colleagues that they now had ten votes to re-open the government in exchange for no real Republican concessions. At that, much of the rest of the caucus went ballistic, and some of the supposed ten said that, in fact, they were not willing to vote for any such deal.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:42uhygmfqtv6zgtolcu3f4ly/bafkreie2yootcgkaw4ar4tgwl6wtutczopq5624ls7uyvb63tqg4xrhs3u)
tonight we're gonna party like its 1789