How Trump Changed Republicans' Shutdown Game

There’s no end in sight for the current government shutdown, which entered its third week on Wednesday. While Democrats are clinging to their $1.5 trillion demands—and Republicans, for once, are refusing to capitulate—there has been a palpable shift in the government shutdown state of play. This week, Rep. Mike Haridopolos, R-Fla., joins “The Signal Sitdown” to discuss the evolving dynamics of shutdown politics.

“Historically it should be a surprise,” that Democrats have opted to shut down the government, Haridopolos told The Daily Signal. “The Democrats historically have always got along with a clean [continuing resolution],” he added. That’s especially the case in recent history, as Democrats have voted upwards of a dozen times for a nearly identical continuing resolution that kept the government open and running on spending levels set during former President Joe Biden’s administration.

To add insult to injury, the continuing resolution that would last through Nov. 21 was negotiated by Republican and Democrat appropriators. “We negotiated this ahead of time,” Haridopolos told The Daily Signal. “[House Appropriations Chairman] Tom Cole sat down, of course, with the House appropriators and Democrat appropriators, and said, ‘We're going to have a clean [continuing resolution], what else do you need? We want to do it till January.”

Democrats, however, wanted the continuing resolution to expire in November. “We acquiesced and said, ‘Okay, fine, November 21,’” Haridopolos continued. “We negotiated. So this drama about ‘They never had a seat at the table’ is wrong.”

This morning on “Fox and Friends” Steve Doocy was in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, asking people what they thought about the government shutdown. Some of them were unaware of it. Others either blamed the Democrats or both parties...I don’t think anyone said it was all the Republicans’ fault. One woman asked if there were any negative consequences could only cite the lack of toilet paper in Yellowstone National Park.

It needed to never start in the first place. When you get the U.S. government in the mix as the payee, it only creates the environment to have costs rise, especially when new innovations become available, and they demand that all should have availability to these expensive innovations.

That said, the Republicans are as much to blame as anyone else. Sure they fought against Obama Care (ACA), but once it had been passed, they ran on their donation campaigns on the promise that if they regn control that they would repeal ACA and repleace it with another plan. Problem was , it was a great fund raising issue, but they never did anything to develop a plan. So, when we gave them back control, they had nothing with which to act., which is why 15 years later we are still stuck with it.

But since the Democrats now need illegals to regain power, because peopke are starting to wake up to the reality that all the Democrats really care about is retaining power, so they too have been fund raising on the issue, but instead of replacing it, they want to expand it, and putting more people on the program, including illegals.

It is time for Republicans to do what they have been promising for more than a decade & a half, and that is come up with a replacement plan & implement it while they have control.

Just a word of caution for you, do not hold your breathe waiting for them to do so.

That is why this shutdown is ongoing, they are asking for 1.5 trillion more to be infused into ACA to pay for the illegals healthcare needs.

Elections have consequences. - Barack Obama.

Somebody needs to remind the left of Obama’s profound statement! We won. You lost. There will be zero bipartisan debate or any give and take. Then, we will talk to you. Suck it up, liberals. Learn to be gracious losers.

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