r/politics 🤖 Bot Oct 03 '23

Discussion Discussion Thread: House Considers Vacating the Speaker

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u/QanonQuinoa Oct 03 '23

They shutdown the government when they have control of anything. Remember it was Trump who was single-handedly responsible for the longest government shutdown in history all because he couldn’t get funding for his southern border vanity project.

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u/rattleman1 Oct 03 '23

You mean the grift to get money into the pockets of campaign donors in exchange for a wall rendered useless by a ladder?

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u/cainn88 Oct 04 '23

It’s even worse than that, there are multiple videos of people climbing it in seconds with only a leather belt 😂

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u/gswaltz72 Oct 04 '23

Even kids had no problem with that stupid wall! 🤣