If he's forced by context to sign the bill, the documents' release will be thwarted on the basis of "active investigations." /2

Trump will begin firing people again. And unless the bill they're now discussing says federal employees can never be fired during a shutdown and must be paid after, no matter what (which is the law, anyway), the very thing that guys like Tim Kaine are proud of "achieving" will instantly go away. /2

Really, their only tactic was to count on the weakness of Democrats, which, once again, appears to have been enough.

And here we were, holding out to save people's health care. The public understood that.

They will now understand that we failed them. /2