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The White House thought the shutdown would be quick. Now they’re frustrated. (www.politico.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38198291

White House officials, at the start of the shutdown, were certain the Trump administration was better positioned to battle the left during a funding lapse.

In early October, several Trump administration officials had a friendly pool going of how long the shutdown would last. The White House, at the time, was confident Democrats would quickly fold.

No one guessed more than 10 days.

The account, relayed by a person close to the White House granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking, underscores just how much the administration miscalculated the Democrats’ will to keep the government closed even amid furloughs and imperiled social programs like food assistance.

As the shutdown heads into its second month, Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated. On Thursday, he called for Republicans to abolish the filibuster to reopen the government — a plea he knows is futile, but that demonstrates his growing irritation with Democrats, said a second person close to the White House.

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[–] 61 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Who'd've guessed the Democrats would refuse to vote in favor of cutting health insurance subsidies for millions of poor Americans in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires?

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  • [–] 72 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    I’m pleasantly surprised by their backbone

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I am too.

    On the one hand, it's a pretty simple and obvious principled stance. But on the other hand, the Democrats haven't shown much in the way of principles in quite some time.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I’m sure it’s still some scheme to cover for the ratchet effect. “We tried. It was the longest shutdown ever!”

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The joke is that this hits small business owners hard because it makes it even harder to compete with big companies that can offer benefits. The GOP just loves to target their base.

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    • [–] 43 points 10 months ago

    One side wants to keep health insurance affordable for millions of hard working Americans, the other side is willing to starve children to keep that from happening.

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    [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    they need democrats to cave, so they blame them. all REPUBLICANS need to do is remove the filibuster and push the shutdown to end anyways, of course its to prevent the release of epstein files.

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Well, democrats are backed into a corner by a violent mob called the GOP. All they can do is wait it out and refuse to negotiate while the GOP voter base goes broke and gets angry. The hope is that the GOP mob goes after their GOP leaders and votes them all out, but that probably wont happen.

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