Senate Republicans are grumbling that President Trump undercut their strategy for ending the government shutdown when he said that he’s willing to cut “the right deal” with Democrats on health care.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) scheduled three votes this week on a House-passed bill to reopen the government and keep it funded through Nov. 21 but failed to pick up any additional Democratic votes for the measure.
Some Republican senators worry Trump’s remarks convinced many Democrats the president will eventually make significant concessions.
One Republican senator who requested anonymity to avoid angering Trump said that the president’s comments about being open to a “deal” with Democrats had “muddied” the Republican shutdown strategy.
For once, Democrats have got the framing right… and even then they stumbled into it and found their footing after a week.
Congress is one of the few government institutions getting paid, it’s the Republican leaders setting the business of the day, and if they are limiting it to their unpassable bills then that’s their fault. Johnson also isn’t doing any legislative work at all when he is being paid to, because that would lead to the new rep getting sworn in and more Epstein files being released.
So yeah, no matter how much Fox News spin is put on it, the fact that Republicans have been in charge of every federal government branch this year, the courts, the House, the Senate and the Executive yet they are still stumbling to an opposition that merely asks for a couple minor concessions should be apparent.