Republicans Trump Shutdown Immigration
The Washington Post1 day
Funding a government that kills unarmed citizens, guts social programs and loots the treasury isn't governing — it's complicity. A shutdown isn't chaos; it's a moral stand against a budget that bankrolls ICE raids, a $839 billion Pentagon and agencies posting white supremacist content. Democrats have nothing to lose by forcing the majority party to answer for its priorities.
Democrats shut down the government twice in back-to-back years and got nothing for it — Trump ended the standoff by sending ICE to airports and signing an executive order to pay TSA agents, pulling the only card Democrats thought they had. The two-track fix moves forward on Republican terms, and Democrats are left with no wins and a ready-made narrative that they're the ones who broke Washington.
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