With the government shutdown well into its second week, President Donald Trump’s strategy to break Senate Democrats has become clear: Maximize the pain of the closure to force them into retreat. His administration is firing civil servants en masse, threatening to withhold back pay from furloughed federal employees, and canceling billions of dollars in funding for states that voted for his opponent last year.

Yet with only a couple of exceptions, the party’s senators are holding firm—to the unexpected delight of House Democrats worried that their counterparts across the Capitol, whose votes are needed to reopen the government, might cave in the face of Trump’s heavy-handed pressure campaign. “I’m surprised, but I’m happy,” Representative Eric Swalwell told us. Like many of his House collea

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