All the media hype about ‘Democracy‘ and Autocratic King Trump should now be packed up and put aside…
It IS ALL ‘hype’….
The American system of Government IS alive and well….
And the legislative branch just flexed ….
Several times this week….
First….
RightWingNuts joined Democrats in sinking the Republican House Speakers first attempt to pass a spending bill….
Then a second attempt with Trump demanding a debt ceiling went nowhere ….
Trump then WANTED a Government shutdown that he WANTED to blame President Biden on went NOWHERE…..Republicans not stupid enough to accept Trump’s fantasy…
Finally?
The House GOPer’s cut a deal with their opposition (which is how Congress works Donald and Elon) to avoid a shutdown…..
There is no debt ceiling increase and absent a few cuts of programs?
The member’s got what THEY wanted, NOT Elon……
Who folding like a piece of paper in the end to support GOP House Speaker Johnson, the only idiot that would want the job…..
“President-elect Donald Trump’s last-minute demands for a congressional funding package were rejected by dozens of Republicans this week, foreshadowing the legislative challenges he could face next year — even with unified GOP control,” the Washington Post reports.
“Trump’s role in sinking a bipartisan deal to fund the government — and his public insistence that any spending bill lift the debt ceiling — led to a failed vote on the House floor Thursday evening. More than three dozen members of his own party voted against the deal he’d endorsed hours earlier. The Senate passed a new bill to avert a government shutdown early Saturday; the bill did not include Trump’s debt limit demand.”
“The drama highlighted the limits Trump faces in bending his entire party to his will, as Republicans hold a narrow margin in the House and remain ideologically split over government spending.”
Wall Street Journal: How a routine spending bill turned Washington upside down.
Politico: Trump’s wake-up call: Republicans are willing to defy him.
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Playbook: “The whole saga is a reminder, especially for Republican leadership, of what things will be like with Trump back in office. For the last few years, Congress has gotten used to a fairly hands-off approach from the president in their negotiations.”
“It’s clear that’s all over…”
“At the same time, the spectacle raises new doubts about all the talk of complete GOP unity after the election, as intraparty squabbles burst directly into view. Dozens of GOP lawmakers defied the incoming president, and roughly three dozen House Republicans voted against the bill, which was backed by more Democrats than members of the GOP.”
New York Times: “The episode demonstrated a well-established pattern by Mr. Trump. He often purposely blew up congressional negotiations during his first term, often with a tweet, only to be forced to retreat or give up his position in the face of an angry reaction from both allies and adversaries.”
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“President-elect Donald Trump, who derailed a bipartisan spending deal in Congress, tried on Friday to escape responsibility for the consequences, saying it would be better to let the government shut down under President Biden’s watch than to allow a politically damaging stalemate once he takes office next month,” the New York Times reports.
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