Are you kidding me? I’ve seen this point in Reddit for a decade now. It comes up in r/politics all the time

So they can ensure they’re only parroting the party’s lines when they do resume communications.

What are you talking about? There were a lot more cuts to the Bipartisan funding bill, outside of the proposed debt ceiling increase. Looks like the Republicans still get all the cuts they wanted, just no debt limit increase. This is definitely being celebrated as a win on their side.

Absent were provisions that had infuriated Trump and his right-wing allies, including cost-of-living increases for lawmakers and giving Washington, D.C., control over a stadium site that could be used for the Washington Commanders NFL team. The legislation also excluded health care provisions to overhaul laws around pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, that were agreed to in the previous deal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trumps-demands-leave-republicans-no-plan-government-shutdown-rcna184866