Trump werde „wahrscheinlich ermutigt“, wenn acht Demokraten für die Beendigung des Shutdowns stimmen, sagt Senator Murphy

Likely? Ha

Of course he is embolden by it. Just ask Columbia how great it was that they buckled from pressure immediately. It certainly did not make the admin leave them alone

This is why you don’t negotiate with a terrorist and Trump/the GOP are terrorists trying to create control through fear and pain

Immediately after an agreement was reached he gave notice to the Supreme Court they are still planning to fight paying full SNAP benefits. That seems pretty bold since this was just the vote for having the vote not the actual vote itself.

It’s almost like laughing in Democrats’ faces daring them to change their minds because they know they won’t.

The 8 Democrats should be primaried and the DNC should support their opponents!

Likely? He’s incessantly going to call this out as Dems creating unnecessary pain and then simply folding and thereby looking like they have no agenda and stand for nothing. It’s huge ammo for him. Dems immediately need to find a message to counter that. It doesn’t matter whether it was a horrible mistake or however anyone wants to describe. This is the morning after, day 1, and all that matters is how it’s dealt with going forward.

> Democrats would get nothing on health care beyond a promise that the Senate will vote on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies before the end of the year — essentially what Senate Majority Leader John Thune offered more than a month ago and Democrats objected to.

Healthcare has been at the center of this unprecedented shutdown fight, and even if there is a future vote on ACA subsidies or amending previous cuts, there’s no indication that Republicans will change their minds about locking in rising healthcare costs and these cuts to Medicaid that don’t even remotely offset the cost of Trump’s agenda.

During the shutdown, Trump damn near gleefully threatened the livelihoods of Americans, their families and the federal workforce.

He threatened to impose mass layoffs and withhold funding to Democrat run areas and warned that he would take advantage of the shutdown to permanently disrupt government services and operations and cancel funding for social programs that millions of Americans rely on in one form or another.

At the same time he was throwing lavish, tone deaf parties, golfing on the taxpayer dime, taking a wrecking ball to the White House to continue construction on his invasive and increasingly expensive ~~ballroom~~ vanity project, and all while his lawyers are fighting in court to halt funding for SNAP benefits.

And bear in mind, we’re still waiting for Trump’s health care plan that he promised in two weeks from now… eight years ago.

That said, Trump’s careless and cruel decisions over the past 40 days will be overshadowed by Republican efforts to control the narrative.

They will push the talking point that Democrats prolonged this shutdown for nothing—that it was all performative. In spite of the fact that Trump and Republicans created the conditions for the shutdown in the first place by refusing to negotiate or participate, by cancelling votes, by forcing recesses, by failing to even show up for votes on government funding bills, and by rejecting Democrat’s CR counterproposal that included healthcare protections early on.

They even shot down a proposal to help temporarily fund SNAP benefits that were coming to an abrupt end.

Many have argued that Democrats recently gained some political leverage after last week’s elections indicated a sharp rebuke of Trump and his policies.

But now they’re folding with little to show for it and Republicans will seize on this opportunity to blame Democrats for the hardship that some Americans were forced to endure. And it won’t take too much convincing because Dems held out for a record breaking number of days only to come up near empty handed.

Meanwhile, Republicans still hold a trifecta of power and now assume all of the leverage. They have no obligation to hold a vote or even entertain Democrats.

And if another funding fight ensues in the future, they’ll be in a better position to refuse Democrats and deny them any sort of compromise under the guise that Dems are acting in bad faith and because they won’t dare risk another shutdown to ultimately concede to Trump’s ultimatums in the end.

When Republicans finally put this whole fiasco behind them, they’ll just continue lying about their commitment to a „better“ healthcare plan or instead of universal healthcare, we’ll get the universal privatization of healthcare.

Meaning more profit seeking and denied claims, exorbitant costs and skyrocketing premiums, unequal access to care and less accessibility for low-income individuals and families, not to mention the conflicts of interest and lining of pockets, hospital shutdowns, and of course, a lot more dead poor people.

Murphy for Minority Leader

I think Trump is already about as emboldened as it’s possible to be. He has immunity, the SCOTUS is in his pocket, Congress ditto. There hasn’t been an effective check on him in most of this term.

Call for Chucks removal then.
You are a senator. You can do it. It just takes one to call for a leadership vote.

Remove him or share the blame.

„Likely“? He absolutely is. The orange thrives on this stuff, it feeds his insane ego.

How the hell will he be emboldened. He just does whatever the hell he wants in any case.

Peak Murc’s Law content day

You have to be simple to think Trump needs help being emboldened or cares about SNAP or ACA people. Like seeing starving people would have any effect. He’d probably mock them !