1/19/19: President Trump is floating a plan to get the government back up and running, now that he’s had it shuttered for almost a month. If the Democrats will ignore the fact that the U.S. Constitution leaves the power to appropriate money in the hands of the House of Representatives, and give him some dough, he will reinstitute DACA protection for the 800,000 Dreamers.
Speaker Pelosi remembers who snatched away that protection – or tried to – until federal courts stopped him.
That’s when Trump said the Dreamers “could rest easy.” (See: 1/10/18.)
“No,” says Pelosi.
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The parks are closed; the rangers can't guide anyone. Trump wants to make sure they get paid. Trump's plan is a joke. |
Meanwhile, the president has already agreed that workers not working will get back pay in the end. That means their financial pain is temporary. It also means, “We, the Taxpayers,” will foot the bill, even though the work we wanted government to do – for example, keep parks open and clean, check the safety of the meat we eat, and make sure psychos don’t board planes carrying Uzis – has not been done for a month.
We of a liberal stripe support back pay for federal workers because we almost always support workers.
It’s what liberals do.
Still, shutting down the government, but paying the
workers anyway, is really dumb GOP policy.
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