When President Donald Trump announced last week he wanted Congress to “pass a clean, temporary government funding Bill,” that should have dropped the chances of a federal shutdown to near zero.
After all, shutdown threats tend to get driven by conservative hard-liners intent on cutting spending — and who better than Trump to pull them in line and keep the government open?
So it’s quite a testament to how dramatically Trump has shaken up Washington over the past six weeks that the likelihood of a shutdown hasn’t abated. In fact, according to my reporting, it might actually have increased.
This time, it’s Democrats who are itching for a fight — over the Department of Government Efficiency cuts that Trump has blessed and deputized mogul Elon Musk has gleefully carried out.
More people should have done what Green did. Make them censure the entire Democratic caucus.
I for one thought the paddles were clever. Im not sure if I can say they were more effective. If they could get themselves all thrown out without making to much of a ruckus. In other words make it were they are thrown out and most people would view it as unfairly. That would do a good job of spotlighting the totalitarian ways. Thing is it has a good chance of failure whereas the paddles will definitely work but to less effect. Believe it or not these are actually the things they weigh when doing things. If I was a male congressman though I would have worn pink somewhere although I may be unaware of some dresscode preventing them since women tend to get more leeway with things like that in formal precedings.