Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) doesn’t think that the fight over the budget will lead to a government shutdown, asserting that if Democrats negotiate with President Donald Trump over his wall, neither party will have to shoulder the blame of a shutdown.
According to a Monday Wall Street Journal report, McConnell conceded that Democrats are “not irrelevant” due to their recently won House majority.
However, McConnell looked ahead to 2020 when he foresees an opportunity for Republicans to even further ingrain Senate gains with a favorable map and easy turnover opportunity in Sen. Doug Jones’ (D-AL) seat. McConnell euphemistically referred to the failed candidacy of Roy Moore, who was accused of sexually assaulting underage girls, “the Alabama mistake in 2017.”
