I agree with Schumer that events will eclipse this vote: it will be irrelevant during the November 2026 election.
I agree with Philly that court pushback is non-negligible: outright rejection of court orders has been limited to the immigration sphere. So far. I’ve set up a thread tracking Trump’s defiance of the rule of law. I therefore agree that removing court pushback over an extended period of time would be bad.
Explicit government shutdowns are unpopular though. Exchanging a few days of it for an agreement or rejection of up or down votes on Trump policies might be a good trade. Alternatively, a single Democratic Senator could have withheld unanimous consent. That would have gummed things up, but only delayed matters on a limited time table.
My point is that there are a number of unexplored alternatives to an extended game of chicken, which I agree that the Dems would lose. Because the GOP has lost those games every time they’ve attempted a shutdown.
At any rate, the Senate Dems will have little to do until September or until recession turns public opinion sharply against Trump’s lawbreaking. It’s time to turn our attention to other levers.