On Saturday, the president was left alternately defiant and angry, self-pitying and frustrated. He argued to aides that he did not deserve the blame he was taking, but without a credible deal on the table, there was little for him to do. Irritated to have missed his big event in Florida, Mr. Trump spent much of his day watching old TV clips of him berating President Barack Obama for a lack of leadership during the 2013 government shutdown, a White House aide said, seeming content to sit back and watch the show.
Can someone explain how these shutdowns happen. Why the fuck would the basic operating budget tied to that other shit? What fucking genius came up with that model?
It's because of a lot of stuff, including sometimes having funding for these things included in the budget resolutions (or continuing spending resolutions when a budget hasn't been passed). It actually wouldn't have been much of an issue except Trump ditched the EO DACA program and told Congress to deal with it while pushign for his wall. Since it hasn't been, then McConnell has been touting "You can have CHIP or DACA", which is kind of a fucked up negotiating tactic. Had Trump not suspended it and put it on Congress, this would have been a easier negotiation.
The key problem is the continuing resolutions they keep doing to avoid passing an appropriations bill, which just kicks the ball down the street. That's the last I saw from McConnell who wants to temp fund the government through Feb 8. Which just means it shuts down again if they still haven't resolved shit.
Why is that other horseshit tied to the basic operating budget? Nobody runs shit that way.
I'm not into blaming either party for the shutdown. I'm way more kissed that it's still possible to do this after the last time these pieces of shit collaborated to shut it down.
Can someone explain how these shutdowns happen. Why the fuck would the basic operating budget tied to that other shit? What fucking genius came up with that model?
It's because of a lot of stuff, including sometimes having funding for these things included in the budget resolutions (or continuing spending resolutions when a budget hasn't been passed). It actually wouldn't have been much of an issue except Trump ditched the EO DACA program and told Congress to deal with it while pushign for his wall. Since it hasn't been, then McConnell has been touting "You can have CHIP or DACA", which is kind of a fucked up negotiating tactic. Had Trump not suspended it and put it on Congress, this would have been a easier negotiation.
The key problem is the continuing resolutions they keep doing to avoid passing an appropriations bill, which just kicks the ball down the street. That's the last I saw from McConnell who wants to temp fund the government through Feb 8. Which just means it shuts down again if they still haven't resolved shit.
Why is that other horseshit tied to the basic operating budget? Nobody runs shit that way.
It was basically Trump's way of trying to push for the wall funding which likely wouldn't have made it into the final budget either way. By throwing DACA out there and telling Congress to deal with it, he thought he would 1) Be able to blame Dems by saying they prefer illegal aliens to military people, 2) Push for a DACA renewal tied to wall funding. Instead, it's biting him pretty hard except for the 32% of people who still think he is amazing.
I'll see if they put the shutdown signs on the Mall again; they did that in 2013 and I documented it for the folks who were arguing that Obama wasn't letting veterans visit the WWII Memorial and shit.
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