Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he’s growing concerned that President Donald Trump might shut down the government to create a diversion amid the House impeachment investigation.
Wait. There is a working government?
The Extortionist-In-Chief has already facilitated genocide and shut down the govt! Rinse and repeat or new distraction or obstruction…THE RED BUTTON!
Real warning across the aisle (we need to work together… to avoid…) OR baiting Trump to act in a way that would be disasterous, for Trump ? Perhaps this is a “both” two-fer?
I really can’t tell.
I’ve been looking for a place to paste this.
I wonder if Trump is really dumb enough to do this, as it didn’t work out that well last time. I don’t think his advisers would allow him to do it, and McConnell sure will push him to sign the funding bills. That doesn’t mean Trump won’t try to deflect from the impeachment process in any way he can, but this one would be way beyond sensible. I think Schumer is trying to make sure the statement is out there to pressure the Republicans to keep things running no matter what happens with impeachment.
We’ll see though, with Trump anything is possible…
Yeah, I hope they can avoid it for the sake of the people who’ll be affected most, but I don’t see how this wouldn’t be a political goldmine for Dems.
And this, too.
If anybody needs to watch their mouth when it comes to spouting “dual loyalty” slurs, it’s Dershowitz.
That’s all I’ve got to say…
What the hell. We need to learn the words to this song.
I’m confused. I thought the government was funded through the 2020 election? Wasn’t this a bipartisan deal made after the last shutdown?
As Josh says, as Trump becomes progressively more desperate, he’ll resort to measures no one ever saw coming or thought possible.
I wouldn’t put anything past him. He’ll try to find ways to hurt Democratic Party voters, in blue states particularly.
Anything goes, from restricting Medicaid funding to siccing ICE on immigrants even more aggressively to cancelling the election to I don’t even know what.
We’ll be spending a lot of time in the federal courts in the next year reversing his decisions.
Yes and a grandma from San Francisco is the president.
Lol - well played Chuck.
From here on in, any politics Reps play - “they’re trying to distract from the impeachment proceedings.”
I saw that, I SAW THAT. Lord have mercy, I never expected to hear THAT phrase come out of her mouth.
You know what’s bizarre about this? This is all just a surmise BUT you could actually see him doing it.
Not To Be Trusted. I think he’d shut it down in a heart beat just to change the narrative. What does he have to lose?
Does this have a bit of “Please don’t throw me in the briar patch” to it?