Ok, that’s still a big fight and a dedicated news cycle on the issue rather than being blended into a bloated spending bill with a laundry list of issues. They’re getting a bunch of stuff like this ejected by the parliamentarian. If they wanted to go full ‘fuck the system’, they could just reject these rulings right now.
In the end, the Senate Republicans love having reasons that they can’t do unpopular things their base wants. And they love how powerless the filibuster makes the Democrats. They can get most of what they want via the budget, an unchecked executive, and the Supreme Court.
Ok, that’s still a big fight and a dedicated news cycle on the issue rather than being blended into a bloated spending bill with a laundry list of issues. They’re getting a bunch of stuff like this ejected by the parliamentarian. If they wanted to go full ‘fuck the system’, they could just reject these rulings right now.
In the end, the Senate Republicans love having reasons that they can’t do unpopular things their base wants. And they love how powerless the filibuster makes the Democrats. They can get most of what they want via the budget, an unchecked executive, and the Supreme Court.