The government is closed. In just a few days, 47 million Americans will not receive the nutrition assistance they depend on because the Trump administration refuses to use emergency funds for the SNAP program.
Instead of trying to end the government shutdown, Donald Trump left the country.
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If a Democratic president left the country for a week during a government shutdown, the mainstream media would go crazy.
The media coverage would be inflexible and the criticism incessant.
Trump controls Republicans in Congress. Republicans have a majority in the House and Senate.
Yet the mainstream media has decided that those responsible for those suffering are not the president or his party, but the Democrats.
It was not the Democrats who closed the House of Representatives and left Washington. It was House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Democrats did not flee the country during the government shutdown.
It’s Donald Trump.
Republicans refuse to negotiate to end the shutdown.
Republicans in the House and Senate refuse to do their jobs, or in the case of the House, even to come to work, but the mainstream media can only blame the Democrats for this situation.
On CNN’s State Of The Union, Jake Tapper asked Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT):
Food stamp funding is expected to run out at the end of this week. This is happening because Democrats have not agreed to vote to fund the government without Republicans making concessions to seriously change health care policy.
So, is this a compromise you are willing to make and continue to make, letting some Americans go hungry until the Obamacare subsidies are extended?
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