Donald Trump is threatening to shut down the government because he can’t convince his Republican colleagues to vote for Border Wall funding – now he is attempting to bully Democrats into supporting his vanity project. Donald Trump has taken another unprecedented presidential action, threatening to shut down the government while his political party possess unified government control. Trump can’t convince his Republican colleagues to support his border wall but is trying to pin blame on Democrats. Donald Trump is threatening to furlough thousands of government workers during the holiday season. A government shutdown might sound like something abstract, but it has severe and real consequences for the thousands of government employees who will have their pay suspended and their jobs in question during the holiday season. Threatening hardworking government employees’ livelihoods to score political points is abusive and irresponsible. Importantly, Democrats shouldn’t be necessary to approving a Border Wall. Republicans control majorities in both Houses of Congress and hold the presidency, if they had the votes to approve border wall funding, they could simply vote to do so. But instead, President Trump is attempting to bully Democrats into voting for a package that even his own party can’t fully support. Add your name to tell your representatives to stand firm and refuse to fund Trump’s inhumane and ineffective Border Wall.
1,400+ signatures — we’re almost halfway there
Some passing thoughts.
1. Since Donald Trump says it is only the bad journalists that lie and since Mr Trump is not a journalist and in fact doesn’t write anything apart from badly worded tweets, his word is therefore to be trusted (despite Politico and the Washington Post apparently claiming he has enough fake claims in the thousands to make him a Presidential world record holder in the Porky department).
2. One of the President’s trusted claims is that he has promised that Mexico will pay for the wall (and no doubt when the next Trump chosen useless advisor is replaced Mr Trump will shortly remember this and retract his demand that Congress free up some billions of dollars to stump up the money Mexico is going to be paying in their stead.)
3. Another trusted Presidential claim is that the progress on building the wall is such that much of it has already been built. Since it turns out that only 6% of the money requisitioned last time has been spent, and since the President himself has also assured us (non fake news) that the wall is now largely in place, the great news is that not only was 6% enough to build most of his wall but that therefore most of the money requested last time will presumably therefore be returned to the cash strapped government with a record sized current deficit.
There – aren’t you glad you believed in this genius.
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