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‘Disastrous’: The Washington Post Warns Democrats They’ve Walked Into Trump’s ‘Trap’
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The Washington Post warned Democrats that they’ve walked into President Donald Trump’s “shutdown trap” in a Wednesday morning editorial.
Under the headline, “Democrats just marched into a shutdown trap,” the Post assailed progressives for forcing Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to abandon off ramps that might have prevented a government shutdown.
President Donald Trump and his budget director, Russell Vought, now have extraordinary authority to choose which agencies to close, what spending to prioritize and even which government workers to lay off.
While congressional Democrats have so far put up a mostly unified front, coalescing around a demand to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year, there’s no guarantee the party’s resolve will last.
There is no reason to think this shutdown will end any differently for its left-wing counterpart.”The federal shutdown — the result of a dispute over the impending expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies — began at midnight on Wednesday.