While Senator McCain is quite used to being a hero by any measure and takes blame where it belongs, I can understand Senator Shumer's view point as well.
To begin, the Republicans like to pull this stunt whenever the opportunity presents itself to measure the degree NO GOVERNMENT effects the operations of the USA.
But, Senator Schumer, is correct. The Republicans have all the power they need to reopen the government and the attack on immigrants has to stop. It simply has to stop.
The USA has never been a country full of hate for other ethnicities than Caucasian. It has welcomed peoples from countries suffering under dictatorships, poverty and illness. We started to turn our backs on immigrants under "W" because of the politics of the Republicans, namely White Supremacists.
The hate exuded by right-wing extremists of the Republican Party is changing the reputation of the USA. This country is being led by the bottom of the barrel Republicans and it's extremist media and it shows.
Under President Obama there was nothing heard from the Republicans, but, the national deficit and cutting care to the poor and working poor to bring down the cost of government. Now, under Trump, there is a new kind of welfare causing increases in the national debt, Wall Street Welfare.
Wall Street has become completely "Too Big Too Fail" according to Republican standards, that it needs the USA Treasury in order to continue to operate from day to day. The huge tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations create a cushion to fall back on for at least the next year or so. Poor Wall Street "The Fed" is raising rates to target inflation and there is no sympathy anywhere for them. Mnuchin should lose his citizenship because he has turned against the people and harnessed the USA tax system for the wealth of a few.
US Senator Shumer is valued for his long lived presence in the US Senate, his knowledge, expertise and morality to hold the country in high esteem. Senator Schumer looks at the entire picture of the USA and sees a great deal of suffering. The USA has never before been harnessed to feed the wealthy, it has always been harnessed to feed the people and have an agenda of peace through USAID and trade. Schumer is correct. The Republicans are harming the USA and it has to stop. So, when Trump and his crony Congress wants to attempt to play politics they would turn to Democratic hardliners that are profoundly worried about the country, namely the US Senate and US House leadership.
Currently, the suffering continuing to be the responsiblity of the Trump White House is the mudslide in California, the suffering of the people in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Texas and the peninsula of Florida. All that is going to be effected by contiued government closing.
No one in the Trump White House is balancing their lust for politics and money with the needs of the people of the USA. Senator Schumer and Minority Leader Pelosi have a heavy burden on their shoulders and evidently, they are feeling every bit of it.
The USA has never been a country full of hate for other ethnicities than Caucasian. It has welcomed peoples from countries suffering under dictatorships, poverty and illness. We started to turn our backs on immigrants under "W" because of the politics of the Republicans, namely White Supremacists.
The hate exuded by right-wing extremists of the Republican Party is changing the reputation of the USA. This country is being led by the bottom of the barrel Republicans and it's extremist media and it shows.
Under President Obama there was nothing heard from the Republicans, but, the national deficit and cutting care to the poor and working poor to bring down the cost of government. Now, under Trump, there is a new kind of welfare causing increases in the national debt, Wall Street Welfare.
Wall Street has become completely "Too Big Too Fail" according to Republican standards, that it needs the USA Treasury in order to continue to operate from day to day. The huge tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations create a cushion to fall back on for at least the next year or so. Poor Wall Street "The Fed" is raising rates to target inflation and there is no sympathy anywhere for them. Mnuchin should lose his citizenship because he has turned against the people and harnessed the USA tax system for the wealth of a few.
US Senator Shumer is valued for his long lived presence in the US Senate, his knowledge, expertise and morality to hold the country in high esteem. Senator Schumer looks at the entire picture of the USA and sees a great deal of suffering. The USA has never before been harnessed to feed the wealthy, it has always been harnessed to feed the people and have an agenda of peace through USAID and trade. Schumer is correct. The Republicans are harming the USA and it has to stop. So, when Trump and his crony Congress wants to attempt to play politics they would turn to Democratic hardliners that are profoundly worried about the country, namely the US Senate and US House leadership.
Currently, the suffering continuing to be the responsiblity of the Trump White House is the mudslide in California, the suffering of the people in the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Texas and the peninsula of Florida. All that is going to be effected by contiued government closing.
No one in the Trump White House is balancing their lust for politics and money with the needs of the people of the USA. Senator Schumer and Minority Leader Pelosi have a heavy burden on their shoulders and evidently, they are feeling every bit of it.
January 22, 2018
With Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve.
THE BIG IDEA: (click here) The failed efforts this weekend by moderates to end the government shutdown underscored how poisoned the well has become.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell postponed a largely symbolic vote that was scheduled for 1 a.m. so that his members wouldn’t need to sit around all night. The roll call vote will now take place around noon.
There is some optimism about a deal that could reopen the government until Feb. 8, but it’s also possible that this three-day-old shutdown could drag on for a while.
Either way, the impasse foreshadows how little will get done legislatively in the 10 months before the midterm elections.
“Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots,” Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) told reporters on Friday night.
Republican leaders have already punted many items on their wish list,...
