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Day 27 of this reckless presidential temper tantrum. The American people are suffering. It’s time for Mitch McConnell to emerge from the witness protection program and DO YOUR JOB. pic.twitter.com/hxtTFuV2ok
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) January 17, 2019
While we wait, not so patiently, for Robert Mueller and/or other experts to further discuss Buzzfeed‘s big reveal from last night…
It’s revealing that when Pelosi put opening the government as a condition of the State of the Union Trump didn’t respond with, “I have confidence we can get solve this in the next two weeks.” He has no plan, no endgame in sight.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 18, 2019
From Vanity Fair, “Trump Doesn’t Understand Why He’s Losing the Shutdown”:
With each passing day, it seems less likely that Donald Trump will negotiate a speedy resolution to the ongoing government shutdown. Ordinarily, in the case of a political standoff, one side will concede after the consequences exceed their pain threshold, or once both sides grow tired of posturing and agree to compromise. Trump, however, appears to be lacking in any of the traits that might bring him to the negotiating table. He is, for one, largely apathetic to the 800,000 or so federal workers who are not getting paychecks (“most of the people not getting paid are Democrats,” he has said). He is arrogant enough to believe that the American people largely back his position, despite polling showing the exact opposite (58 percent of Americans told the Pew Foundation that they oppose the wall, and would also oppose a deal that included wall funding). And he lacks the political sophistication to understand what is motivating Democrats in Congress to hold firm.
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