Who caused the government shutdown?
It seems like everyone wants to play the blame game. Just curious what others here think.
If Republican leadership brought the DACA agreement to a vote it would pass both the House and the Senate, yet they won’t. It’s on them.
It’s the divided US societies caused government shutdown. US citizens used to have common interests which no longer exists after the globalization. US is not able to police the world while prioritize its citizens at the same time.
False. DACA is supported by a majority of Americans. Same with healthcare and gun control. Majority opposed Tax reform. Republicans are governed by their special interest donors, and that is what the do.
Unfortunately, you “majority” could not even win presidential elections. In the next century, will you be able to keep the country as united as before? I doubt it.
Democrats insisted on attaching DACA, a non-spending measure, to the CR. DACA does not expire until March. Their demands of blanket amnesty and citizenship for illegal aliens and little meaningful concession on border enforcement and reforming our legal immigration, is a deal breaker. The Democrats care more about illegal aliens than actual Americans.
But what about Trump? He was the one who broke down functioning DACA system supported by majority of Americans, and then sank the negotiations with his jell-o like decision making.
DACA was an abuse of executive power by Obama, as immigration law lies strictly with Congress. Trump simply reversed the order and left the matter to Congress, where it should be decided. The Democrats, however, are not willing to make substantive concessions in exchange for legal status for DACA recipients. Their game is to get blanket amnesty and citizenship for illegal aliens as a whole.
Nope, GDP goes down 0.1 to 0.2% for the quarter for each week of shutdown.
Essential services are forced to remain open and functional but they're not being paid. If you're in the military you're made to keep working and you'll get paid when congress grows up and does their job. It's sad really.
100% the dems fault. Need 60 votes to pass and Republicans have 51. Now 9 million kids health insurance is at risk cause the dems want to protect 800k illegals.
Nope. I can prove to you you’re 100% wrong. The Republicans do not have 51. They couldn’t even pass their own bill with a bare majority. McCain is out. Paul is out. Graham is out. I think another one as well. Schumer could simply say go ahead and vote...we won’t filibuster, and it would fail. The GOP is using 9 million poor kids as a bargaining chip to help pass their own bill. Making them chose between funding chip vs DACA, which the gop is refusing to do. Why would the democrats yield to that kind of position? Government is designed to only function by consensus. The Republicans need a bipartisan bill or they can simply own this #shitHoleShutdown.
95% of GOP voted for the CR while only 5% of Dems did. The CR actually includes a six-year extension of CHIP. And it was the Democrats who insisted on attaching DACA to a spending bill, not the GOP.
Mostly Trump. He keeps changing positions every 5 minutes. McConnell had no idea what budget he would sign. Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing. Second at fault is the GOP. They have the majority and can’t even get their own members to agree on a budget. Third is democrats, and the GOP seems entirely uninterested in bipartisanship. This is what complete, clueless, rudderless leadership looks like.
We have a filibuster from Dem otherwise it'd never close. You have to be a libtard to put this on GOP.
The government caused it.
Democrats simply want to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic, while the Republicans want to make sure the Irish are locked in the lower decks. Screw them both, we need a real resistance like the people who flooded the airports a year ago to stop Trump. The lesson of those protests and #metoo should be clear to those who oppose the Trump agenda: we gain ground when we act together and beyond the grasp of the DNC and their resistance mantra of “wait until 2018 when we’ll run a bunch of conservative Dems like Doug Jones to take back parts of the legislature... then we can help you.”
Repubs have majority, how did they shutdown? Some went against their party?
Preventing shut down requires more than a simple majority