I think the next step should be to pass single topic CRs WITH a debt ceiling increase to cover that amount of funding. This would make the whole Obama voted against veterans and orphans good for a second trip around the track as well as makes the democrats own the default issue.
The GOP should then start referring to those bills as the clean national parks bill, the clean veterans bill, the clean NIH bill and ask why the Dems won’t take what they asked for.
Exactly, maybe you should write to Boehner and tell him that.