If Congress can’t get anything done due to Trump’s pressure to stop an effort to get him fired?
(And not have enough votes to override him)
That would mean NOT passing ANY laws….
That would mean possibly the government running out of spending money…
THAT could mean ANOTHER Government shutdown something Donald Trump has done before, and with the House Democrats out for his job, he might very well do again to try to ‘leverage a deal’ as he is ‘want to do’…
Chances for a government shutdown before Thanksgiving once seemed impossible but, with no progress reported on any of the 12 spending bills, the risk grows each week of a showdown that would be far more sweeping than the 35-day partial shutdown earlier this year. But many other laws are expiring or lapsing, from some foreign surveillance laws to the potential reinstatement of a very unpopular tax on medical devices.
The rational minds in Washington — yes, there still are quite a few — see each of these issues as separate and distinct from the House’s potential impeachment of Trump. But the president has increasingly demonstrated the past few weeks that he regularly sees issues as one large negotiation, linking together seemingly disconnected threads into one massive ball of legislative wax.
His blowup with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday at a White House meeting about the unfolding crisis in northern Syria clearly had undertones of her push to impeach Trump in the House later this year. His rally in Dallas on Thursday night turned into a greatest hits parade of issues he has long pushed (border wall funding) and grievances against his political enemies (Rep. Adam B. Schiff of California, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee).
By Friday, at a photo opportunity supposedly promoting the first all-female spacewalk, Trump took a reporter’s question about his acting chief of staff’s conflicting answers about Ukraine security aid and turned it into a montage of ongoing crises. Trump discussed his talks with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, about a pause on attacking Kurds in northern Syria, railed against the Schiff-led investigation and claimed to have “taken control” of oil in the Middle East.
All that leaves congressional leaders fearful that any of these must-pass bills could turn into a hostage situation if Trump sees it as possible leverage against impeachment….
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If things go completely sideways in the Trump-Congress relationship, even easy-to-pass measures might run into trouble. The 2017 tax bill, for instance, included $17 billion worth of tax breaks that will expire at year’s end, including the paid family leave measure and legislation that ended a tax on medical devices that was originally imposed in the 2010 Affordable Care Act….
I doubt this will happen.
After all the Republicans are having “private conversations.”
Heck any minute now they are going to turn on Trump and throw him out.
I hope u are right Jack…
The first 45 days was enough….
We KNOW the guy CAN be reckless in his own interests ….
And “we” (all of us but you apparently) understand that the Republicans are Not going to desert Trump over these “private conversations “ that have you all excited.
Let me amend your statement above…
“We know the guy and his Republican lackeys can be reckless in Trumos interests.”
I NEVER said Republican’s will convict Trump unless the polls have Trump down ….
I have company on THAT here and elsewhere
Then ,if you believe that. What “point’ are you trying to make with all this rot about “private talk?”
My point is simple and no there are no “grays” here.
The Republicans in Congress are Not going to turn on Trump for the simple reason that the Overwhelming Majority Of Republicans support him.
So who gives a damn about their “private talk” and what has that to do with the reality above?
As usual, you can’t answer that and so resort to inane blabber about “shades of gray.”
Are there pa few Republicans who oppose Trump?Sure.CG is one.So?Even he concedes that his view is a very small minority of the Republican Party of today and does anyone believe Weld .Joe Walsh or Sanford even rise to the level of nuisance to Trump.p?Get real!
Republicans support Trump for the simple reason that he broadly represents their views and prejudices.
And all the above?Just rubs you wrong because you desperately want to believe that Republicans “really” aren’t for Trump and you have been peddling that line since he started running.The problem?The evidence doesn’t support your view despite your vain attempts ,by posting various anecdotes, to make it true.
It isn’t. Case closed.
The Republican Party is Donald Trump and Donald Trump is the Republican Party in October, 2019.
Agreed Jack, and the only way to get rid of Donald Trump is to vote for the Democratic Candidate for President.
I have said people need to vote for YEARS here….
I repeat the last time Jack….
I said I do NOT believe they will convict Trump….
I DO stand by my view that a good many of them ARE uneasy with him….
I have provided facts to back MY view up…
And I will repeat that the “fact” that they are “uneasy” with him(what normal human being wouldn’t be uneasy with him) is a gross irrelevancy.
It is not their personal feelings that are important.It is their political actions and we know what those are don’t we?
Full Support.
He, he, he…
Which was NOT there on Syria, The Wall, Mar a Lago , Ukraine, etc…..
The shutdown shakedown.
By the way, James, the “More…” line at the foot of your extract doesn’t link to anything, so I have nod idea where the original appeared.
That’s DSD….
Link added…