Democrats are pretending to be tough guys, but they’re not very good at it. They closed the federal government at midnight Tuesday, lest the public realize just how enfeebled their party has become. The left’s faithful allies, about 1 million nonessential federal government employees, will pay the price.
“We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible,” President Trump warned on the eve of a last-ditch Senate attempt to avert the cessation of unimportant federal functions.
Lacking the ability to think ahead, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer sabotaged the good-faith Republican effort to maintain the status quo while both sides tended to the ever-tardy appropriations measures.
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