Republicans are trying hard to spin any potential government shutdown as Democrats’ fault. Of course, Republicans control the presidency and Congress, so it’s not clear whether anyone buys their bovine-manure.
One of the most annoying things about Trumpism is that there’s so much crazy shit each week, you sometimes forget what crazy shit he said a few weeks prior. The media itself seems to have forgotten that Trump was gleefully urging a shutdown not that long ago, even though they reported on it at the time!
If this shutdown happens, it’ll be because Donald Trump and the Republicans want it. And it’s clear they want it based on the tweet above (there’s literally a tweet for everything isn’t there).
They’ve wanted a shutdown so bad, they held children’s healthcare hostage for months, failing to reauthorize the CHIP program for 111 days.
Thank goodness the Democrats are standing firm on DACA. We shouldn’t allow the hostage-taking Republicans to cruelly hold people’s lives and healthcare at gunpoint to pass routine continuing resolutions or fund a budget.
As if all this wasn’t enough, there’s footage of Trump calling into Fox and Friends in 2013 saying “problems have to solved from the top” and the president is to blame for the shutdown:
— @subirgrewal