Senate Democrats have blocked 10 bills to fund the government in the past few weeks. On Thursday, they voted to stop stand-alone legislation to fund the Defense Department.

“Filibustering the defense appropriations bill, which is a bill which, like I said, should get 80-plus votes on the floor, suggests a level of dysfunction that, on their side, right now, that I can’t explain,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said after the latest vote. “These are not people who want to get things done.”

Most of them, at least. Three Democrats — including, to her credit, Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto — have consistently voted with the GOP to keep the government open, believing that the disruption isn’t worth the cost. Good for them.

Indeed, the American public should have no doubt about who is beh

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