cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38198291
White House officials, at the start of the shutdown, were certain the Trump administration was better positioned to battle the left during a funding lapse.
In early October, several Trump administration officials had a friendly pool going of how long the shutdown would last. The White House, at the time, was confident Democrats would quickly fold.
No one guessed more than 10 days.
The account, relayed by a person close to the White House granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking, underscores just how much the administration miscalculated the Democrats’ will to keep the government closed even amid furloughs and imperiled social programs like food assistance.
As the shutdown heads into its second month, Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated. On Thursday, he called for Republicans to abolish the filibuster to reopen the government — a plea he knows is futile, but that demonstrates his growing irritation with Democrats, said a second person close to the White House.
they need democrats to cave, so they blame them. all REPUBLICANS need to do is remove the filibuster and push the shutdown to end anyways, of course its to prevent the release of epstein files.
One side wants to keep health insurance affordable for millions of hard working Americans, the other side is willing to starve children to keep that from happening.
Who’d’ve guessed the Democrats would refuse to vote in favor of cutting health insurance subsidies for millions of poor Americans in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires?
the gop couldve easily ended the shutdown themselves without the Ds, they have the numbers. its just that they dont want to take the blame for the shutdown.
I’m pleasantly surprised by their backbone
Mailed my congressmen to tell them not to give up, come hell or high water.
I am too.
On the one hand, it’s a pretty simple and obvious principled stance. But on the other hand, the Democrats haven’t shown much in the way of principles in quite some time.
Maybe this will be the start of a grand rebuilding of the spine we all believed that they had circa 2008.
I hope it changes too.
I’m sure it’s still some scheme to cover for the ratchet effect. “We tried. It was the longest shutdown ever!”
I’m pretty surprised they haven’t just rolled over, TBH.
The joke is that this hits small business owners hard because it makes it even harder to compete with big companies that can offer benefits. The GOP just loves to target their base.
I think they just love to target non million/billionaires. They’ve just been able to dupe the gop base.
