Trump's White House Slams Liberals... Calls Them "2-Year-Olds" in Midst of Gov't Shutdown
The federal government entered a partial shutdown after midnight on Saturday after Senate Democrats blocked passage of a short-term continuing resolution to fund government business for the next few weeks.
This despite not objecting to anything contained within the continuing resolution, but as part of a bid to force action on a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which is set to expire in March.
According to The Daily Caller, White House director of legislative affairs Marc Short called out the Democrats for what he deemed childish behavior during a media briefing on Saturday.
“Senate Democrats are basically conducting a 2-year-old temper tantrum in front of the American people,” stated a clearly frustrated Short.
Marc Short tells it like it is: "The Senate democrats are basically conducting a two year old temper tantrum in front of the American people." #SchumerShutdown pic.twitter.com/1TSVcVrIlS
— TrumpSoldier (@DaveNYviii) January 21, 2018
Short made it clear that the White House was open to negotiate the finer points of an immigration reform bill that would fix DACA while bolstering border security and funding the wall, but not while Democrats were holding the budget hostage over an illegal immigration issue unrelated to the funding bill.
“What is hard for us to understand is there is nothing in the bill that Democrats say they object to,” Short said, according to Newsmax. “But, yet, it is like a 2-year-old temper tantrum — to say: ‘I will take my toys and go home, because I am upset about something else.'”
Short’s boss, President Donald Trump, didn’t hold back either.
Democrats are far more concerned with Illegal Immigrants than they are with our great Military or Safety at our dangerous Southern Border. They could have easily made a deal but decided to play Shutdown politics instead. #WeNeedMoreRepublicansIn18 in order to power through mess!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 20, 2018
But during his media briefing, Short stressed that the White House was looking for a resolution to the conflict, if it could find enough adult Democrats to go along.
“I am hopeful that Democrats will understand the harm they are doing for the Border Patrol agents and the harm to the troops overseas and the inconveniences they are placing on millions of Americans,” Short stated later. “It’s time to open up the government again.”
“The White House position, though, remains the same that we will not negotiate the status of 690,000 unlawful immigrants while hundreds of millions of taxpaying Americans, including hundreds of thousands of our troops in uniform and border agents protecting our country, are held hostage by senate Democrats,” he continued.
Hopefully, this gambit by the Democrats — a shutdown of the government to force action on the unrelated issue of illegal immigration — will blow up spectacularly in liberal faces as we approach the 2018 mid-term elections.
Thankfully, the government reopened on Monday after the Democrats finally stopped sulking about DACA, but how knows how long it will be before they get mad and do the same thing all over again.
The American people don’t like temper tantrums from politicians, and it must be made clear to the Democrats that their childish actions will result in electoral consequences.
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