Member when the Democrats shut down the government for 1.5 years under Trump, in efforts to hamstring the country under his presidency, using a lame politicized issue as an excuse?

Then they were forced to keep just the essentials of government going, with bipartisan legislation allowing temporary stopgap measures, such as funding hurricane relief and education.

Deceptive reporting today, pretends that bipartisan legislation for stopgaps, while under the Democrats' neck stomp, was actually "Republicans increasing the debt limit without spending cuts."

Later, after hurting the country for the last two years, Democrats again blackmailed the country for partisan pork in the budget, threatening to shutdown the government and default. This resulted in a budget bill named "bipartisan", but which was not at all, it was 'blackmailed partisan,' like everything with "bipartisan" in the bill's name.

The same trick worked for the first pandemic relief funds. They were recklessly excessive and responsible legislators worried about long term economic impact.. yet republicans were mostly on board for large relief funds including checks...but blackmailing Democrats blocked the Republican senate bill everyone agreed on, with a last minute nod from Pelosi herself. Democratic house members took the same bill, packet it with contentious partisan pork, then lamented for a news cycle or two how Republicans were blocking Covid relief. After propagandizing Covid relief, and hurting the country to trick people into thinking the relief was all from Democrats, in the first of many efforts to buy the next election, they removed the contentious pork after delaying much needed relief a week or more for politics, then of course, the now back to the same Republican bill, sailed through Congress.