Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters Wednesday that he didn’t think Congress would “end up” shutting down the government over funding for the border wall, a break from comments he made earlier this week when he wouldn’t rule it out.
“The speaker and I are going to try to help the President get funding for a wall for a year,” he said, according to CNN. “Shutting down the government is something that’s widely disliked by virtually every American and I don’t think we’re going to do it.”
Trump has made it clear that he would be happy to shut down the government over border wall funding, but has lamented to reporters that he decided to sign Congress’ partial spending package in order to avoid a shutdown before midterms.
It kinda, sorta feels like Mitch knows he f’ed up when he said out loud what he thinks about social security and medicare cuts.
Duh. Exactly one man in Washington gives a shit about the stupid fucking wall.
Well, maybe also Steve ‘Cantaloupe’ King.
GOP: Home of the Whopper!
Remember: we were told that the spending cuts would spur growth and not lead to catastrophic deficits, that there was no need for comprehensive analysis of the economic impact of the GOP tax changes (as tax reform always gets), and that giving cuts and loopholes to the rich would help everyone.
Failure on their part should not lead to service reduction on my part. And if they want to cut SSI, I’ll take the money I put in plus market returns. Assholes.