Big Picture

Originally published at: Big Picture - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Going to do a post on this later this morning. But President Trump’s decision, revealed overnight, to unilaterally and illegally shut down broad swaths of the federal government is a full scale constitutional crisis. Democrats power to stop him is very limited. But there’s one cudgel on the table. Republicans have been begging for their…

1 Like

Inane. No agreement with Trump binds him to anything. Maybe a partial or temporary lifting of the debt limit if, and only if, Trump rescinds his unConstitutional orders and reinstates the people wrongly fired with back pay.