Then let him veto it.
You can defend the gutless wonders in the senate if you want to. I’m not going to.
There is no excuse for this at all.
I am not defending the gutless wonders of the senate. I am pointing out the obvious - which is - under current rules of the senate (which have been around for a long long time) he needed to vote “no” or the bill was dead. Now he can at least bring it back at another time for another try. The stupid part of all this is that even if it clears the senate it will be vetoed by “the one”. There has to be a way for withholding the funding and if necessary shutting down congress to make it happen if the “base” and its leadership is willing to have a partial government shutdown.