He threw a monkey wrench into their time line.
They wanted to drag this out for years and years and years.
It's already been two years, but they wanted it to be 5+ years.
If they had been able to drag it out longer, they would have worn people down to a nub and people would be more compliant, just the way they like people to be.
Instead they have a bunch of defiant people to deal with who understand that their civil liberties are being chipped away.