In a shutdown, a President can unilaterally decide what to cut. Trump planned to do just that, cut everything and everyone he didn't want, even court staff and buildings, and turn us into a police state. Trump wanted the shut down. The funding bill was terrible. A shutdown would have been much, much worse. It took courage for Schumer to take such an unpopular but necessary position.
Letting the government shut down would have been much worse. It would have immediately handed Trump the coup he wants.
So the cowards claim
In a shutdown, a President can unilaterally decide what to cut. Trump planned to do just that, cut everything and everyone he didn't want, even court staff and buildings, and turn us into a police state. Trump wanted the shut down. The funding bill was terrible. A shutdown would have been much, much worse. It took courage for Schumer to take such an unpopular but necessary position.
And he has unilateral power to keep the government closed indefinitely.