Sen. Chuck Schumer was right to reluctantly clear the way for passage of a GOP-crafted funding bill, arguing the alternative was a government shutdown that would have given the Trump-Musk tag team further excuses to slash government programs. The NYT has more. … 

Just to emphasize: I support efforts to control and occasionally cut government spending. I don’t necessarily like it. But I know it’s often necessary. It’s necessary for private businesses to do the same. It’s necessary for households too if the numbers don’t add up. That’s why there’s a part of me that welcomes some of the spending cuts underway at the federal level. But there’s responsible spending cuts – and then there’s irresponsible spending cuts, as WSJ’s Peggy Noonan points out. What we’re seeing today is reckless, ideological-driven cuts at the federal level – and arguably unconstitutional cuts as well. There’s no need to make a bad situation even worse, as Schumer rightly notes, by shutting down the entire government.