Both parties are complicit. Good writing from rat leaning Hill.
BY BRADLEY BLAKEMAN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILLGovernment shutdowns are nothing new and have been going on for decades. Since 1977 there have been 22. None of them have lasted more than a month, and most did not even go a week. The longest shutdowns have been during the tenure of Democrats serving in the White House — Carter, Clinton and Obama.
The duration of the average shutdown tells you it’s a stunt. The lead-up to a shutdown always seems to follow the same protocols. Congress punts a continuing resolution for a matter of months and then waits for the last possible moment to vote on appropriations, thereby setting up the threat of a government shutdown in order to shakedown and extort the other party into making a deal that, again, will only last months before the whole process repeats itself.
No business and no family budget could operate the way Congress does business.
This political game of Russian Roulette is getting tiresome and predictable. Holding government spending hostage for purely political purposes is gross negligence at best and extortion at worst.
Shutting down the government over a $5 billion appropriation in a $4 trillion annual budget is as partisan as it gets. The visceral hate for this president, and the resistance by Democrats, is appalling.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/422632-trump-should-call-dems-bluff-in-shutdown-showdown
