On Friday morning, the House passed a stopgap measure to keep the government’s lights on through November 21, in a mostly party-line vote. But it failed in the Senate later in the afternoon as Democrats stood against it, setting the stage for a shutdown at the end of the month.

“Our Republican colleagues seem to think Americans are happy with the direction of this country,” Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday. “They’re voting like they think the status quo is good enough, even though they’ve heard from so many of their constituents the fear of hospitals closing, of health care being diminished, of premiums going way up.”

Schumer, of course, blinked during his first standoff with this Republican majority six months ago, arguing that a shutdown would do more harm than good—and

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