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The partial government shutdown is a smear on the republic. It represents the worst type of overreach by the federal government – holding paychecks of American citizens hostage while political games are being played. Both sides are to blame, but only one side can end it without hurting Americans further.
Please allow me to explain.
Let’s set aside the past. If we don’t, those of us who support building the wall should be extremely upset that this battle is happening now instead of when the GOP had control of the House, Senate, and White House. It wouldn’t have been easy then just as it isn’t easy now, but at least they could have passed the CR with wall funding in the House and fought the battle with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over getting it passed in the Senate.
In the present, the only way President Trump can end the shutdown is if he abandons not only the promise he made to Americans who elected him, but the countless others who didn’t vote for him but who are affected by the financial and criminal toil that comes from our insecure southern border.
For the Democrats to end the shutdown, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would have to give up a political card. She knows the borders are insecure. She knows the President has offered to meet nearly every demand in negotiations as long as he gets the wall. But she’s unwilling to play her card at this point, willfully allowing Americans affected by the shutdown to continue to suffer.
She’s allowed to do this because mainstream media paints her cause as the righteous one, and America’s indoctrinated masses are buying into that lie.
If she and the Democrats who support her were being honest, they’d acknowledge this has much less to do with the “immorality” of the wall and everything to do with the 2020 election. That’s it. That’s what’s in play right now, which is why she’s being so obtuse.
The right thing to do is to negotiate with the President for pretty much whatever she wants. DACA? Done. Obamacare protection? Done. Casual Fridays at the White House? Done. She could have a press conference declaring the shutdown had gone on for far too long, the President was being whatever she wants to call him, and she had to act, but she was able to negotiate for X and Y and Z, so despite the wall it was a huge victory for the Democrats. Yadayadayada.
Pelosi could ask for a king’s ransom in exchange for the wall. She would get it and the shutdown would end. Instead, she has one goal: make Trump lose. It doesn’t matter to her that Americans are suffering while she plays the game of political brinkmanship.
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