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it isn't really that they would rather shut down the government over legalizing genocide of Transgender people, it is that they want to shut the government down constantly, at all times, and by any means necessary. Republicans are trying to make the government fail so that their fascist corporate CEO buddies can fill the power vaccuum. If they manage to pass laws that make it legal for the police to genocide the people they hate most, that is just icing on the cake for them. It is political strategy straight out of the Nazi party playbook.