The New York Times columnist Ezra Klein warns that Democrats may have just signaled to President Donald Trump they will “fold under pressure.”

In Monday’s opinion piece titled “Were Democrats Thinking?” Klein argued that, despite Democrats’ slim chances as the opposition party to win a shutdown, they were prevailing this time, with polls suggesting that Americans were more likely to blame Republicans.

However, on Sunday, the Senate voted to approve a stopgap measure that will keep the government funded through January 30, fund most federal agencies, and pay back furloughed workers. Seven Democrats and one independent voted in favor of the measure.

Klein described Sunday’s deal to end the shutdown as offering “very little,” as it does not include the Democrats’ original demands on heal

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