When assessing the bias of an article, look at how it ascribes all of the agency to one party.

Chuck Schumer sounded as if he were relishing his standoff with the Republicans

What Chuck Schumer is doing right now, it’s sickening.”

Democrats are maximizing the leverage they have

Outrage followed from Republicans, who printed out the Senate minority leader’s remark on posters and condemned it

the White House took it upon itself to increase the misery for government employees when Russ Vought, the director of the office of management and budget, began following through on his threat to carry out layoffs.

Notice how Republicans never simply do anything? The one action this article ascribes to Republicans is "following through on his threat".

Republican layoffs are deep inside a complicated sentence, well beneath the fold. But the HEADLINE, is...that the minority party refuses to vote for a bill they didn't get any input into. The fact they weren't allowed any input is unmentioned in the article.

"What Chuck Schumer is doing right now, it’s sickening."

Who was it that called a recess early and hasn't backed down on ACA subsidies?

I must have Mike confused with Chuck.

"Democrats are being callous" against federal workers, they say, as their King fires a third of them and asks if he can NOT pay them when the shutdown ends.

Democrats refuse to fold

check the temperature in hell.

So the Republicans control all three branches of government, including both houses of Congress, and it's the Democrats' fault that they can't pass a budget?

Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

I am pleasantly surprised that they didn't fold. Hopefully they keep it up.

The dems need to stick to their guns on this.

Keep at it, don't barge. This is the biggest move they've done in this term, and I want them to stay strong.

I want them to win.

I think the Democratic leadership learned from the last debt ceiling debacle, where they did whatever the GOP and Trump wanted and got pelted with figurative rotten eggs by everyone who was paying attention.

The Obamacare subsidies are an easy hill to die on. They are available to anyone who makes less than a high middle class income, and for a great many Americans, they are the absolutely only way they can afford health insurance.

A self-declaredly populist movement like MAGA should know better than making health care unaffordable to millions to pay for billionaire tax cuts and corruption.

Back in the Spring, we were all pissed off at Schmuck Schumer after he bent over and helped the MAGA Nazis keep the government open, because they said they'd negotiate on whatever the Dems wanted.

Six months later, and they haven't negotiated anything, and now they want to end healthcare. They give Sociopathic Oligarchs any tax break they demand, but they can't give one to the American people for their fucking HEALTH CARE? These people are psychopaths!

Now they are demanding that Dems end the strike, and THEN they'll negotiate? That's what they said last time, and now they're taking our health care away. If we give them our health care so they can open up the government and continue to abuse us, what will they take away in 6 months? Our freedom of speech? Our courts? Our ELECTIONS? OUR FREEDOM?

Nope, keep it closed down until they give us what we demand. The country they want to open isn't the country we want to open anyway. We're better off leaving it shut down, they'll do less damage.

GOP cut billionaire tax and now say they can't afford healthcare and shut government over it. Dems just watching and owe nothing.

By Grabthar's hammer, never give up! Never surrender!

yes. YES!

"You mean... We dont have to do anything, and people are supportive about it? Wow!" -Democrats, probably.

Don't get me wrong, I want them to keep holding fast, but I just think its funny.

Just for clarity, if every single R votes yes and every D voted no, would the budget pass? Of does it require a larger majority that the GOP doesn't have?