"The Democratic Party at the leadership level has really just become entirely feckless," said the progressive US Senate candidate running to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

In addition to doing nothing to extend the enhanced ACA tax credits, the bill lacks language “saying that Trump has to spend the money,” The American Prospect‘s David Dayen lamented.

“He can keep withholding funds, and even rescind them with a party-line vote,” Dayen added. “None of the problems that inspired the shutdown are resolved.”

Schumer personally voted against the legislation, which progressives dismissed as a face-saving maneuver.

It is time to take the trash out.