The party members ARE ANGRY with the situation the county is in with Republicans in charge of the ENTIRE Federal Government’s Presidency, Congress and Supreme Court…
In a week the Congressional Democrats will have Americans, Media and Trump & Co. waiting to see if they vote DOWN the budget and shut down the government….
Trump’s people have said they would go ahead and do a Second round of MASS Lay-Off’s if the Budget isn’t approved the way they want it subjecting the country to AN OTHER demonstration of the POWERLESS of Democrats to stop Trump’s actions….
Republicans believe they have a Win-WIN situation…
We will see come next week….
This could be another 3 1/2 Years of this chaos …..
By refusing to make concessions that would help President Trump’s party avert a government shutdown next week, Democrats are embracing a very simple strategy: Do something.
To understand why, we need to look back a few months ago, when the country faced its last funding crisis.
In April, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic minority leader, declined to leverage his party’s filibuster power in the Senate to block Republicans from funding the government. He faced months of backlash from his liberal flank, and his approval ratings have yet to recover.
Now, congressional Democrats are eagerly showing their base that they are willing to fight, even if that battle is all but certain to end in defeat.
Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic leader of the House, have framed their shutdown stance as a push to protect the health care of millions of Americans. They’ve so far resisted the Trump administration’s attempts to pressure them to accept a short-term deal that doesn’t include money for Affordable Care Act subsidies, among other demands.
Health care has helped Democrats win elections in the past. In 2018, the party captured control of the House with promises to protect Obamacare. Democrats would like to repeat that play in next year’s midterms.
It’s an argument based in traditional politics — issues, the risk of losing government benefits and ideology.
But the Trump administration has made clear that this is a shutdown like no other.
Typically, presidents want to avoid shuttering the federal government, fearing negative effects on the economy, in no small part because millions of federal employees would be put out of work — plus a litany of other wide-ranging consequences.
For the Trump administration, the shutdown is not a problem but an opportunity. By forcing a shutdown Democrats will be handing Trump the ability to push one of his major goals: A total gutting of the federal government….
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In some ways, the party’s predicament on Capitol Hill embodies the dilemma of Democrats in this second Trump administration.
They are locked out of control in the White House and in Congress, and the Supreme Court is dominated by a conservative majority. Their lack of federal power means their resistance can only be symbolic, while they hope the nation rallies to their side.
Their base is desperate for them to “do something.” But despite their demands, all Democrats can really do is very little — and hope enough voters will reward them for trying….