it's a good question--but there's a senate rule that prevents us from doing that. unless you have 60 votes for a bill in the senate, senate rules allow a minority of senators to use what's called a "filibuster" to block a bill from passing. republicans only have 51 votes, so chuck schumer and senate democrats can basically block any bill they want to. that's how we got to a shutdown--senate democrats chose to block a continuing resolution bill to keep the government open because they wanted an immigration deal (or daca deal) attached to it. 