03-30-2017, 08:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-30-2017, 08:54 PM by Eric the Green.)
(03-30-2017, 04:57 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: But the division among the Republicans might have changed things. If that disagreement was strong enough that they couldn't agree to repeal Obamacare, it might be strong enough to generate a real shutdown.
The problem with that is, who are the extreme right-wingers going to get to agree to a shutdown, if they can't agree with the folks on their own side? The Democrats are of no mind to shut down the government; they like most of its programs and activities. It's only the right-wing that wants to shut it down. When Obama was the president, most of the Republicans went along with their right wing. But now that the shut-downers have their own president in the White House, they can't seem to agree. Even though Trump is appointing to cabinet positions people whose announced intention is to destroy the agency that they were appointed to lead.
Unless a majority of the majority Republicans in the House can shut down the government, a shutdown now might have to be an announced goal and proposal of Mr. Trump himself for it to succeed. Is that likely?