At one point during the hearing, Tyler Becker, a lawyer for the Justice Department, argued on Friday that the shutdown was “not an emergency,” even though roughly 42 million people were at risk of losing benefits imminently.

Someone is not invited to the next party.

Bet you they won’t.

Or they’ll only pay it to a specific demographic and pretend they can’t do it for anyone in the out-group for . . . racism reasons.