Schumer’s Tantrum: One Purple Crayon Away from a Shutdown

<![CDATA[Chuck Schumer has 63 crayons. He’s got funding for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Defense, Education, Infrastructure, Emergency Services, and half a dozen more he can barely keep track of. But you take one purple crayon away, say, $9.4 billion in spending from a $6 trillion government purse, and Chuck doesn’t reach for a reason. He goes for the matches.]]>