Ain’t the first time ole Donald HAS BEEN UN-American….
Won’t be the Last….
Donald J. Trump IS ONLY about Donald J. Trump…..
Millions HAVE drank his Kool-Aid and would follow him off the cliff…..
Democrats gotta dust off themselves and RUN with the KEEP REMINDING Americans that their President doesn’t care about them….
Trump and Republicans are having their approval numbers dropping and DROPPING….
Democrats need to doing their typical eating their own and continue rowing TOGETHER AGAINST a self serving President & Co….
The government shutdown is already the longest in American history. But it’s also perhaps the most punishing, in part because President Trump has taken actions no previous administration ever took during a shutdown.
Over the past six weeks, the Trump administration cut food stamps for millions of low-income Americans. It tried to fire thousands of government workers and withhold back pay from others, while freezing or canceling money for projects in Democratic-led states.
It remains to be seen whether there will be a political price to pay for Mr. Trump or his party, with polls showing that voters generally blamed Republicans more for the shutdown. But for now, the tactics appear to have worked, after a group of Democrats agreed to support a bill to end the shutdown and drop the concessions their party had demanded…
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The bare-knuckle politics the Trump administration employed during the shutdown — often coming from his budget director Russell T. Vought, whom Mr. Trump refers to as Darth Vader — became too brutal for the handful of centrist Senate Democrats, who never liked the idea of the shutdown much anyway.
The deal they voted for on Monday reverses much of the pain Mr. Trump inflicted. Under its terms, the president must rescind his layoffs and restore back pay to other government workers. Democrats will also get a vote on extending subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, something that Senate Republicans weeks ago offered them….
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Democratic leaders view last week’s elections, with big victories in governor’s races in New Jersey and Virginia, as evidence that their strategy was working. They point to polling that indicates that the public was blaming Mr. Trump and Republicans more than Democrats for the shutdown.
“Republicans all across the country got wiped out,” said Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the top Democrat in the House, adding, “As House Democrats, we know we’re on the right side of this fight.”…
Note…
President Donald J Trump Averge Approval is at 42.8 vs Disapproval of 54.1 at Real Clear Politics
The 2026 Generic Congressional Average Vote is Democrats +4.5 at Real Clear Politics…
image…President Trump and congressional Republicans followed a strategy of ramping up pain and waiting out the Democrats.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times
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