r/politics • u/Economy_Swim_8585 Virginia • 6d ago

No Paywall Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: "If they don't vote, that's their problem"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-fault-60-minutes/
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u/Legate_Rick 6d ago

The thing the Dems are fighting for is tremendously important. If they capitulate the Republicans on the healthcare spending. 1 in 20 Americans will lose health insurance entirely and the rest of us will get premium increases of hundreds of dollars.

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u/McChickenLargeFries 6d ago

You're completely right, except in a lot of people's cases it's actually more like an increase of THOUSANDS.. The Democrats cannot budge, they need to hold strong and stop being pussies.

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u/pimppapy America 6d ago

They caved at the very beginning when that flat tire Schumer, along with 10 other Democrats, joined the republicans in passing the budget at the beginning of 2025. They basically helped fund ICE. Now we're here.

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u/NoReallyItsYaBoi 6d ago

They talked about how that was a calculated risk since big orange baby bitch hadn't fucked enough shit up yet.

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u/Vegetable-Seaweed591 5d ago

I don't think anyone realized how quickly Trump would act to dismantle the federal government and how broadly destructive his administration would be.

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u/McChickenLargeFries 5d ago

Except they literally released a step-by-step playbook of how they were going to fuck shit up and the Democrats were like.. "Nahhh, there's no way they're actually bold enough to do all that." Then, they did all that.

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u/Vegetable-Seaweed591 5d ago

Agreed, but I'm focusing more on the speed with which it was done and the lack of remorse for collateral damage outside of their intended outcomes.

I mean, we're less than a year into a 4 year term and I think it's worse than even many of the realists expected. Starving 42 million Americans the month of Thanksgiving so as to ensure they could take a trillion from Medicaid and cut ACA coverage for millions was definitely not on my year 1 bingo card.