Holding up makes the dismantling a legal affair to be solved in the Courts.
This CR in Sec. 1113 (b) allows the President to begin sequestration, which basically renders all those legal cases moot.
This CR as is is the sole thing Trump needs to avoid any more legal cases related to firing whoever he wants and shutting down whichever department he feels like.
Section 1113 of the CR just basically says that if the President gets rid of someone under sequestration then the budget automatically adjusts to match no need to pass another budget, no need for Congress to get involved.
The Democrats could argue for this to be removed to keep the cases in the Courts, but once this passes with this language, none of those Court cases matter.
Well they’ll matter in that the cases will establish that they couldn’t be fired back in February but with the new law they can now be fired. So the cases will actually go on but to basically argue over how to pay the employees for those four or so weeks that they weren’t legally fired.
The CR Congress is about to pass “solves” the issue. The CR authorizes the President to begin sequestration. The CR also states that if the President fires someone under sequestration then Congress is completely cool with it, no need to ask any more questions, and the budget automatically adjusts to match the President’s change. And the President can sequester to whatever value the President likes as long as it’s a downward direction.
So this law will render a lot of these cases moot. It’ll mostly be court cases over the sequestration process after this inevitably passes. But today’s vote in the Senate, once passed, will hand the power to determine funding to each agency over to the President. Adding yet another power Congress has handed to the President.