Trump Wanted Shutdown to Happen on Biden’s Watch, Not His

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/us/politics/trump-blame-shutdown.html

35 comments

  1. He wanted the debt ceiling gone so Dems couldn’t use it against him like the GOP used it against the Dems.

  3. Strategy is to create as much chaos as possible, then“take control of the situation” and point fingers… divide and conquer

  4. Failing early and often I see. Off to a great start. Will be fascinating to see what the new power couple in DC do next. And the level of fear thee House republicans have is shameful, but expected.

  5. That fact that your incoming president wants a shut down at all shows what a selfish man he is 

  8. I don’t understand what they thought they were going to accomplish. Musk ended up looking like an idiot and Trump ended up looking like Musk’s stooge. I was expecting Trump’s second term to be another disaster but I didn’t expect that he would get started on it before he took office again.

  10. We want it to shut down on January 18th!!!! YEAH YEAH!!! Fuck those people working for HIS ad-MEN-istration!!! YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!!

    Believe it or not….you all, the voters have power.

    ALL OF YOU HAVE THE POWER!

    [Other shoe drops, this is all satire, and you read this as the usually ignorant blind followers of either politacal party, because its all the same argument on either side…]

    If you think anyone in the government did a fantastic job in the last four, you clearly don’t, because you’ll punish the entire group the second Trump gets office. If you think they failed, it is because you aren’t involved enough with the bloated and fat piggy, and we let everything get here not just 8 years ago, not just 16, not just 24, etc etc….we haven’t followed accountability and making people earn the PRIVALAGE of working for us, not the right. They can and should seek jobs in the private sector if they can….and all essential people are already and always are saved (not just by my opinion, it is codified and already paid by contracts or by common sense it is NOT by the tax money collected by a citizen’s check in the same pay period)

    This country was founded by strong morals and ethical questions such as…..”hey I want cheaper tea (or eggs and soy lattes now)” and “I want my voice to matter and be heard and make the government support my group’s and individual rights (Trans, LGBT…eventhough you already get to do whatever you want)”……sounds a lot like 1776, and the reason we started it all to get away from the British.

    If you want to help anyone that you think is deserved in this world, just like on a plane, put your mask on first and then the person beside you. Until you understand we give away so much money (whether correct or incorrect)….and it can’t continue….then shut up and strap in or put your strap on….either way we are fucked.

    We tried respectfully to give you all 4 years…but you get mad when your sitting administration was a lame duck on everything but giving away money and violating the 10th Amendment, but will never face that truth, or forget it like Biden forgets ice cream flavors. You’re trying to blame someone who can’t do anything yet but voice his opinion and prepare to start taking out bites of the shit sandwiches we’ve been eating and prepared by this administration.

    “Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

    It is time to make strong men again.

  11. His interests are always more important than the national interests.

  12. Well that’s who America voted for- and now let them take the consequences- Elon is like FG in Eire – He is all about cutting Medicare – social services- He is a Billionaire but it is the working class who pay for the run of the state Nations with their taxes – the Rich say they invest theirs in the Stockmarket (Drugs) etc.. also say they are Philanthropists – Oh if Kamilla goes in what will happen to our investments… Believe me I worked with the Billionaires as a private Nurse and heard them say it !

  13. This spending bill is only stopgap – it only funds the government until March or so. There will be another funding battle unless the GOP is able to make a lot of cuts (Medicare, social security for example).

    The GOP will control the House, Senate, and White House and we know where the Supreme Court will likely lean towards, but their majorities in Congress are razor-thin. They’ll be able to pass some things through reconciliation, but for the larger stuff, they’ll need some Democrats to vote with them.

    What this all means is that there’s still plenty of opportunity for a government shutdown during Trump’s 2nd (ugh) term.

  16. My family mostly work union and govt jobs. Can’t wait to see their regret.

  17. Don’t worry trump will shut down the government the next time when the spending bill comes up and the GQP will kick the can down the road again. Incase you forgot trump demanded a shutdown the last time he squatted behind the Resolute desk if he didn’t get everything he wanted and after he shut the government down he went and played golf

  18. Trump wanted a shutdown to crash the economy on Biden’s watch so he could come in and say “Bidenomics ruined the country, just like I said it would!” and institute wholesale changes. If the economy is running smoothly when he takes office and crashes after he starts making changes, he can’t blame anyone else. This CR is a big L for Musk/Trump.

  19. Donnie will have plenty more chances to fuck up the world.

  20. Biden ends up being only the second president since Carter without a shutdown. Trump had shutdowns that in terms of days almost equaled the shutdowns for all other Presidents combined.

  22. I mean, wouldn’t any president, or president-elect, prefer not to have a shutdown during their term? This article is seriously reaching.

  23. Given they control the media and half the voters, they could easily convince people it was Biden’s fault even though the House is a fully separate entity with a republican majority

  24. Election is over and he is still working against the country. Old habits die hard

  25. Trump cares not one little bit about this country or it’s citizens unless they are billionaires, does he? It’s all about him.

  26. It worked great for him in Afghanistan. Set the stage for chaos then blamed Biden for chaos.

  27. This unadulterated fraud always makes an effort to blame any, and EVERYONE else but himself I swear. How anyone looks at this man or the Republican party as any kind of bastion of responsibility or accountability is beyond me.

  28. who cares, stop reading headlines, go back to work.

    NYT did this. The entire MSM did this. They don’t get to bitch. We should just stop listening. They don’t care about the state of democracy, why should we?

  29. Not really otherwise he would have pushed for the shutdown. Leon wanted the shutdown. Trump and Leon’s goals aren’t always aligned.

  30. Vindictive orange traitor doesn’t realize the curse of the second term is upon him. Now, the expectations of competency will be higher and he can’t say “well I’m not a career politician”

  31. In other neews, water is wet. Nothing more to see here, move along.

  32. Luckily a shutdown was pushed back to March. The getting rid of the debt ceiling until 2029 is still their plan, it’s just now that can’t blame Biden for it.

  33. Funny thing is, people who relied on the inefficiency of congress to act as guardrails are going to have surprised Pikachu faces when trump signs dozens of executive orders to bypass them completely. SCOTUS will back him on this too. Already has in fact.

  34. “The President was eager to evade responsibility” would have sufficed – applies in just about every situation…

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