Senate Democrats this week said they’d let the Republican short-term spending bill pass, and so avoid a government shutdown as of Oct. 1, for the low, low price of . . . $1.5 trillion .

Yep, they demand that much added spending, which means $1.5 trillion in new federal debt over the next decade.

To add a single month of uninterupted federal operations, the GOP must agree to:

1) permanently extend Biden-era ObamaCare subsidies that now sunset Dec. 31, and

2) gut the health savings just passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and

3) unfreeze $5 billion in foreign aid that President Donald Trump recently stopped while Congress was on (yet another) vacation.

Republicans didn’t bite, so Senate Dems this week used the filibuster to block the GOP’s “stopgap” bill, setting up a gam

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