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Trump signs bill to end the longest shutdown in historyDeal comes without new money for border wall
The presidents humbling concession to the new realities of divided government brought the nations longest government shutdown to an end on its 35th day.
By Erica Werner, Mike DeBonis and John Wagner
Prisoner of his own impulse: Inside Trumps reversal to end shutdown without wall
Elected as a self-proclaimed master dealmaker and business wizard, the president now risks being exposed as ineffective.
By Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey and Seung Min Kim
Last but not least the Washington Post reports:
Right wing splits after Trump ends shutdown
and
Public disapproval of Trump swelled over shutdown
https://www.washingtonpost.com/?reload=true
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)underpants
(182,829 posts)Second, Gorka and Hannity. Boy talk about two fists of mashed potatoes smashing together
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)I think his academic credentials need a deep dive.
He is calling something brilliant that hasn't happened yet, would appear to be a set up to dems, and Gorka just blasted out the jig.
Idiot!
watoos
(7,142 posts)who should have never gotten a security clearance. This Carl Kline guy needs to be brought before Cumming's committee pronto.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)Or jail, hearing, and back to jail.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Sebastian Gorka is a sometimes Trump advisor who is a nationalist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gorka
It's amazing what you can find by typing in someone's name.
Gorka is a bad actor.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)He's more Nazi than nationalist. And like all Nazis, he needs time behind the big iron gates.
cab67
(2,993 posts)Seriously - he doesn't seem to do anything except pretend to know stuff.
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,414 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)... and bring it out whenever they'd like to get acquainted with it again.
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,185 posts)I'm so impressed. No apologies, no appeasement, no name calling, she just stuck to her guns. I would like to know how she thought this through, what were her internal machinations about the whole matter.
However she thought of it, she did it very well.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)From her experience raising and disciplining kids.
That and political expertise.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Speaker Pelosi knows how to handle children, therefore she knows how to handle Dump.
She is a devoted and principled mom and grandma.