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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-gop-will-bear-the-blame-for-a-christmas-government-shutdown/article/2642994Democrats: GOP will bear the blame for a Christmas government shutdown
by Anna Giaritelli | Dec 8, 2017, 3:34 PM
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said Friday that Democrats will make sure Republicans bear the blame if lawmakers fail to extend federal funding beyond Dec. 22 and the government shuts down. "With Republicans in charge of both the Senate, the House, and the White House, our Republican colleagues are mostly debating amongst themselves about whether months into our new fiscal year we can actually pass a final budget," Coons said in the Democratic Party's weekly address. "If they want a shutdown, frankly the balls in their court. Democrats have so far been crystal clear about where we stand. We want to keep our government open."
Coons said the GOP's mishandling of the appropriations process started in May when the four-month-old president was late to give Congress a budget proposal. The White House budget called for an additional $54 billion in Defense spending and cutting that amount from other parts of the government, including cuts to the National Institutes of Health, Pell grants, and other domestic programs.
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"We want to end this pattern of governing from crisis to crisis, moving from one deadline to the next," Coons said. "We also believe we can and must address some other critically important issues before the end of this year as part of the government funding bill."
"The short-term package disentangles routine government funding, for now, from efforts to finalize tax cut legislation and a push to extend legal protections to young illegal immigrants," Coons added.
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OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)of that will be horrendous for the GOP.
global1
(25,250 posts)Fox will back that up. The rest of MSM will pick up that story and the Dems will be blamed. It's getting to the point that the Dems keep getting blamed so much that young Dems will just say - their voice doesn't count anymore and they will just sit future elections out. Many Dems are getting demoralized. The Franken resignation was the icing on the cake. When a good man like Franken gets railroaded into resigning and having his own Party be the lynchpin - it's all over in the eyes of the young Dems. Why vote - they'll only steal our votes from under us anyway. I'll just sign my weekly paycheck over to Trump - you win. I surrender.
Yes folks - it's getting that bad. Just talk to your voting age kids and their friends and learn for yourselves how they feel.
I've had these chats with a number of Millennials and that's kind of what they are thinking and saying.