Americans don't want their government deadlocked over problems the country is facing. They certainly don't want people suffering because of a storm.
I don't really care about the political motivation. I care about the country. Congress needs to solve problems and not create them.
I congratulate the Democrats and President Trump in reaching across the aisle to make it all happen.
Look, the brinkmanship has to end. The legislative process has to go forward. The legislative process has been held hostage by power players. Why is that tolerated? It should never be tolerated. It is grossly unethical to take the country hostage because of extremist demands. It is turning the country over to people who don't care. I don't want to hear how extremists willing to take the country hostage are great Americans, they aren't. Not even close.
September 6, 2017
By Amber Phillips
President Trump doesn't care about his relationship with Hill Republicans. (click here)
Exhibit, like Z, of this is a very public debate about how Congress should prioritize its massively hectic — and massively consequential — September of deadlines.
Lawmakers have to figure out how to raise the debt ceiling, and fund the government, and put an $8 billion down payment on aid for the damage Hurricane Harvey left in Louisiana and Texas, and reauthorize a whole bunch of federal programs, such as the National Flood Insurance Program.
As The Washington Post's Mike DeBonis, Kelsey Snell and Elise Viebeck report, in a meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday, Trump endorsed a Democratic offer to knock out the debt ceiling and Harvey aid in one vote. That was despite the fact that an hour earlier House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) had called that proposal “ridiculous and disgraceful.” The chamber Ryan presides over just passed a $7.85 billion aid package for Harvey victims tied to nothing....
