How childish is this? He’s going to send everybody in the federal government home if they won’t give him his wall…ngomongo!
President Trump revived his threat to shut down the federal government over the immigration battle. Trump wants funding for his border wall and big changes to the nation’s immigration laws. Congress passed a spending bill in March that funds the government through September; the President has said he won’t sign a new spending bill unless his demands are met.
Later today, the President welcomes Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to the White House. In Conte, Trump will see a lot of himself: a neophyte politician who rose to power on a populist, anti-immigration platform. The two are set to hold a joint presser after their meetings.
I knew there was a catch! He’s been fighting for this monstrosity since he came into office almost two years ago; so how come has to get the money NOW?
TRUMP AGAIN THREATENS GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
President Donald Trump[COLOR=rgb(226, 80, 65)]has threatened to shut down the federal government ahead of the midterm elections if Democrats do not agree to fund his wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. The deadline to agree to fresh funding for the government is Sept. 30. He tweeted in 2017 that maybe the country needed a “good shutdown” over wall funding, but backed down.
Can we really expect a blue-wave election in November, with Democrats taking back the House and even possibly the Senate?
On the one hand, there are some encouraging portents. Since the 1840s, the president’s party has lost seats in 41 of 44 midterm elections. The pattern has been for the out party to pick up something like 25 seats in the first off-year election after a new president takes office. Trump is of course far less popular than most of his predecessors. And Democratic activism is at a fever pitch.