Why the Democrats closed the government
A few weeks ago, Ezra Klein, the writer of the liberal column influencing TimesEffectively called on Democrats to close the government, in Introduction title “Stop acting like this is normal.” He looked back to March, when Chuck Schumer, the minority leader in the Senate, mobilized enough voices to help keep the government open before the deadline for the previous financing; The democratic base was angry, but Schumer argued that the closure had risked by examining the weakening of President Donald Trump and increasing the empowerment of Elon Musk and the Ministry of Governmental efficiency to cut through federal agencies. Klein agreed that these were reasonable situations at the time, but now, he argued, the times have changed. The current restrictions on Trump’s strength appear weak in any case, and his presidency has moved from the stage of “speed”-a group of actions that aim to overwhelming opponents-and at a stage of “authoritarian monotheism” that Democrats cannot in the good conscience penalty. Klein wrote that the closure will turn the “widespread crisis” of Trump’s corruption into a “severe crisis” that focuses on popular attention – although the party, which it approved, will need a strong message.
according to puckThe Klein’s argument led to a feverish discussion between the Democrats in Congress, and not all of them on board. “One of the Democrats in the House He was Be the closure of this fall, whether when government funding was exiled, on September 30, or after a temporary extension of this deadline, and that the only remaining question is whether the party’s message highlights Trump’s constitutional violations – a crisis that must be addressed, for some; Sop to élite Times Readers, for others – or a problem with a pocket notebook like healthcare. Soon it became clear that the Democrats intend to go to a mat on the latter, demanding an guaranteed extension of Obama’s support before the expiration of the validity and the opposite of the discounts to Medicaid and other health programs approved by the Republicans in the beautiful beautiful bill this summer. They have retracted one of the aforementioned constitutional violations, also: aggressive management attempts to rape spending in Congress. Last week, Russell Fair, the chief architect of this effort, warned (or, perhaps, promised) that the administration would use a cessation of permanent discounts of the federal workforce. Democrats rejected the threat to somewhat contradictory basis that the administration could not follow it legally, and that it was already calling workers anyway; The right Jeffrez, the leader of the minority in the House of Representatives, is called a “malicious political penetration”, for good management. Trump agreed to interview Schumer and Jeffrez, then canceled, then agreed again. The meeting, on Monday, did not result in a deal. After that, Trump published a mistake Video created from artificial intelligence Jeffrez depicted with a mustache and a mustache, along with Shomer, who can be heard, with a fake voice, and their promise to “illegal foreigners” who “cannot even speak English”, and thus “he will not realize that we are a handful of shit.”
On this point, The Bible belt Politico It has declared The closure was “everything but it is inevitable.” John Thun, the majority leader of the Senate, rejected the buddies of the situation, although the Republicans will be open to discuss health care with the Democrats, they will only do that with the open government; Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, did not even contact the session to the session before the closing date. yesterdayA vote on a republican plan to extend funding during the month of November, peeling two Senate members who gathered with the Democrats, but still less than five votes than the necessary minimum of sixty audio; Confronting democracy failed with a wider margin. Trump said that “a lot of good” may come from closing if the government is allowed to make “irreversible” discounts on the programs that Democrats love, and they have been published. Another racist video for CeffrezThis time with the Mariachi band created from the artificial intelligence of Trumps playing in the background. One minute after midnight, the government has already exhausted the money. The end is not on the horizon yet.
The date of government closure began seriously at the age of eighty. Until then, it was usually short and often revolving around a few issues. Not even there He was A case all the time: In 1982, the government was briefly closed because of the legislators She was working in another way in money raising and collecting jobs. In 1995, the Republic of Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, sparked the first closure of a large length – will last for three weeks – a wide -spenting parking with the Clinton administration. (Gingrich was also disturbed, apparently, about having to use a rear door to get the journey from the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzac Rabin.) In 2013, Republicans closed the government again, this time for a little more than two weeks, in an attempt to Djam Obama. The longest closure so far-five days-in the first period of Trump, as part of an attempt to enhance funding for its border wall. (Before that, Shomer closed the government because of the dreamer, but he fell a few days later, when the Republican party presented a separate vote.)
In each of these three main cases, the party that imposes the issue did not get what they want, and took a greater share of the audience as well. (Dreamers has never come to anything.) Over the years, many theories have appeared to explain how the closure wins and lost. One of the former Clinton assistants has once suggested that it was difficult for the Congress opponents to overcome the sitting president, given his great ability to pay attention – but Trump managed to defeat himself to close the wall financing. (Perhaps this did not help when Trump said, in a televised meeting with Democratic leaders, “I will be the person who closed him. I will not blame you for that.” Put it this weekWith the deep “Liability” Jin-it is reliably witnessed that it prevails in the closure battles. But Shomer did not do it, when it came to the dreamer. It may simply be for a party that imposes the issue on a structural defect. The closure “does not work”, the political scientist Matthew Galasmanan He said Times newly. Each time, the resisting side demanded “the reopening of the government with reference to all the ways that it was closed harmed federal workers and American citizens. In the end, the closing alliance was cracked, reopened the government, and did not win their main goals in politics, and they were worse than moving forward.”
Many liberal commentators, in the wake of Klein’s article, agreed that the closure was a bad idea for the Democrats. However, with waving on the horizon on the deadline, there were also legitimate reasons for alleviating this violation. For beginners, many early opinion polls indicated that voters were preparing to blame Republicans this time; After all, the party controls the White House and both Congress rooms, and closure does not often occur under these circumstances. Although the long -term political consequences of closure have been competed in the past, it is not really clear that the Republicans paid any solid price for those who caused 1995 and 2013; In fact, one can argue that, although both of them failed in a fundamental sense, they are helping to create legends-in order not to overcome the private base, which seems to have helped the party in the long run. If the Democrats end up, they have blaming this closure, does anyone really care about the time they are rolled in the middle of the period, a thousand and new scandals from now? Anyone will even Remember?