They thought a ‘la OMB Vought that not paying people, firing them and starving people would make Democrats let them do whatever they wanted….
THAT has NOT happened…..
And Federal Judges have also joined the efforts aginst them….
OH?
The Senate (Republicans) ain’t changing it’s own rules for Trump who ain’t gonna be President after the next election…
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, President 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.
“Trump, he’s had it with these people, because he knows they’re playing politics,” said the second person. “Nobody thought it was going to last this long.”
When the shutdown began, White House officials were certain the Trump administration was better positioned to battle the left during a funding lapse.
Trump and his top aides thought that unpaid federal workers, closed and limited federal facilities and threats of ever-more job cuts from Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, would be too much for Democrats to handle….
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One person close to Trump, granted anonymity to discuss the president’s thinking, said that while Trump is serious about wanting to eliminate the filibuster, he “knows it’s not going to happen.”
And Republicans on Friday quickly tamped down Trump’s call, including Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota, whose office told POLITICO that his “position on the importance of the legislative filibuster is unchanged.”
“It’s not going to happen,” said the second person close to the White House. “I think it’s all about, just the art of the deal, and trying to point out that the Democrats — it’s the only reason we can’t open the government back up.”
Democratic leaders, for their part, have pushed back on the idea that there’s any progress in negotiations on Capitol Hill, with Schumer telling reporters Thursday that Republicans haven’t brought any new offers to the table to address Democrats’ primary concern — an extension of Affordable Care Act Subsidies….
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“Good. Trump’s decision to cut off SNAP was vindictive and heartless,” Schumer said in a post on X responding to the ruling. “He was trying to manufacture a hunger crisis so he wouldn’t have to fix healthcare.”…