* Ending a shutdown is not as simple as signing onto every GOP agenda, while it at times has been a mistake, but at the very least the DNC defunded the DHS. * The DNC also tried to ban all non-individual spending and cap individual spending in 2003, it was overruled by the SCOTUS' Citizen United decision in 2007-2010, and part of the core DNC platform is overturning that, which would ban AIPAC funding entirely for both parties. The DNC and their platform are progressive.