Incoming House Committee Chair Blames Shutdown On Trump Going ‘Off His Meds’

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) on Fox News Dec. 28, 2018.
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Incoming House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern (D-MA) didn’t mince his words when casting blame for the border wall-fueled government shutdown that likely won’t be resolved until the new Congress is seated in 2019.

Speaking to Fox News in an interview that aired early Friday, McGovern called the shutdown an “embarrassment” that could’ve been avoided if Trump hadn’t gone “off his meds.”

“I think it’s an embarrassment anytime the government shuts down, and this being no exception,” McGovern said. “We gotta work at it until we get to an agreement where a majority say, ‘yes,’” he continued. “And I think we had that until the President, you know, went off his meds and who the hell knows what happened.”

Trump was set to sign the Senate’s bipartisan bill last week that would’ve kept the government open until early February, until his conservative media allies gave him a public lashing for not fighting for funding for his promised border wall. The President reversed course last Thursday, demanding significant funds allocated for the wall in any spending bill and propelling the federal government into a partial shutdown.

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  1. Incoming House Committee Chair Blames Shutdown On Trump Going ‘Off His Meds’

    They took away his vacation and made him go to Iraq, no wonder he is going off the rails.

  2. Avatar for schmed schmed says:

    I sincerely wish that someone could point me to a time when the American Caligula was on his meds and describe any difference.

  3. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    President Grandpa doesn’t seem to travel well. The bounce-back process, such as it is, appears to be pretty messy.

  4. Is it too late to send him a lump of coal for a late Christmas gift?

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