I’m not so sure about ‘never’. After last night’s PR disaster for Chuck and Nancy which was widely meme’d, on the heels of the optics of Nan’s Hawaii vacation while govt workers dug quarters out of their couch cushions for milk, it would be in their best interests to at least knock on the door and put forth the appearance of ‘working’. Disaster for them would be to let OAC and others control the narrative.
You were right. There was a meeting today. I did not believe that the Democrats would actually show, but they did.
And President Trump walked out immediately when Pelosi said she would not fund the border wall in exchange for resolving the budgetary shutdown. He called the meeting "a waste of time". I suppose that he knew that before going into the meeting.
All perfectly correct in my view. The Democrats have always played hardball with funding and holding hostage anything that the Republicans said they wanted. It's about time a Republican played that same game back against them.
One of my "Generation Z" colleagues - a recent high school graduate - has parents who are Federal employees and currently on furlough. We joke that he is now the sole breadwinner in the family and must now turn over his paycheck to his mom every two weeks.
Are we going to see a declaration of emergency? Will the Government be funded by January 14th or will this go on longer? Beats me at this point.
This appears to be a zero-sum game. I hope that the Democrats break hard and soon.