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No, McCarthy did not cooperate with the Democrats.
• He and the GOP hammered out a deal with Biden months ago that would have avoided all this mess. He didn't even let that get voted on. It would have, at any point, completely prevented this, and when Gaetz pulled this stunt it would have backfired completely because the Dems would have supported him.
• The first "compromise" bill he tried to ram through had a number of completely insane GOP riders in it, and he tried to prevent the Democrats from merely reading what they were voting on.
• The second one, likewise, had the insane concept of stripping out Ukraine funding, with the Dems again stalling just to be able to read the damn thing before they voted on it.
Then, after being fucking saved by the Democratic members of congress, he has the gall to run to the news networks and decry them as trying to shut down the government.
The crazy thing is why the hell did he or any of his people think that the Dems would deign to support him after he screwed them over multiple times.
He damn well made his bed, and now he's sleeping in it.