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Democrats are taking a great commitment to continue with a government closure, one that will probably lose.
The most important reason is that President Trump has a giant megaphone. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer simply cannot compete in attracting media attention.
In addition, while some Americans can blame both sides, can’t they act as adults and solve these budgetary fights? – Republicans blame the “Democratic Party” for triggering the closure.
In the informative session of the White House yesterday, a key advantage, JD Vance and Karoline Leavitt continued to repeat, like a mantra, that the Democrats support “medical care for illegal foreigners.” That is bunk. They are not eligible. It is already against the law, except in emergency situations. But Trump is hitting that message home through repetition.
Vance blames Schumer’s fear of AOC’s primary challenge as a cause of closing
Democratic leadership is at a considerable disadvantage when it comes to messages related to government closure. (J. Scott Applewhite, File/Ap Photo)
An editorial of the Washington Post says yesterday: “The Democrats have just entered a closing trap … the progressives adopted the same disastrous mentality that led to the Caucus of the Freedom of the Chamber to believe that it could be wishing that the clashes resist the consequences.”
A few minutes after the informative session, Hakeem Jeffries passed before microphones to declare that Republicans do not want to provide medical care “to working -class Americans.”
The minority leader said that the administration is trying to “stam … The republican health crisis is immoral. “
Frankly, it simply did not sound so blunt or has the same impact.
Vice President JD Vance suggested that Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. is turning left due to a primary challenge of representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Alex Brandon, Pool/Ap Photo)
Whatever the immediate cost of the closure, the military and hundreds of thousands of civilians who do not receive payments, food coupons, Vance and Leavitt blamed democratic intransgence. (Those dismissed will pay again once the closure ends).
The vice president said that Schumer is moving to the left because he is terrified by a main challenge of AOC. She says her only objective is “to stop this madness.”
The president has been more sincere, tells the reporters: “We can do things at the close that are irreversible, which are bad for them and irreversible by them. How to cut the numbers of people, cut that they like, cut how, now that is transparency.
The Democrats do not have the moral terrain to the maximum when it comes to kicks to delay a closure, since it often used the tactic when they were in charge. While Vance says they would be happy to talk about the duration of medical care for seven weeks, the other party feels that they would lose any leverage they have, and would be a humiliating politician.
Democrats are making a more complicated argument about medical care, and that is a more difficult sale for many millions that do not follow the news closely.
Kff, who is Kaiser, says that those in Obamacare would be promoted if tax credits are allowed to expire at the end of the year. The average premiums next year would be $ 888, but without fiscal credits, they would jump to $ 1,593, an increase of 114 percent.
That would really paralyze the law of low -price health care and eliminate millions of rolls.
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The other objection of the Democrats is the deep cuts in Medicaid, despite Trump’s promise to protect the program. But that’s why we have elections. Having lost the camera, the Senate and the White House, the party cannot expect the Republican party to make radical changes in its favorite budget.
It happens, a coincidence, I am sure, that the administration yesterday arrested $ 18 billion in funds for two important transport projects in New York City, the expansion of the subway of the second avenue and the new trains tunnels under the Hudson River.
An opportunity in Schumer’s hometown? Vance says that this is a matter of “triage”, saving money on these projects to preserve essential services.
But it is really a Trump case chasing democratic priorities, as he said he would, since he retained funds for one of his pet projects, the mission of return to the moon, which seems less than vital at this time.
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The minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, Dn.y., seemed outraged by an image of him shared online by the president. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu/Getty Images)
What really angered Jeffries after the failed White House meeting was a false image of the president. He represented him to have a handlebar mustache and wear a great hat, with mariachi music in the background.
Jeffries described the “racist” parody and demanded that the president “tell me to the face.”
The conclusion, given the atmosphere of mutual distrust, is that this closure of the government could prolong for a while. That would gradually increase the level of pain, and the Democrats are already at a disadvantage.
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At this point, the opposition party is trying to show the public that it can fight, and that, beyond the battle of health, it can be its main message.