pjmedia.com By David Manney
NFL fans get the Super Bowl, NASCAR gets Daytona, and MLB gets the World Series. The rest of America? We get front-row seats to Washington’s favorite cliffhanger, with never-changing scripts and a bickering Congress screaming about beating those looming deadlines to avoid a government shutdown. We all know the drill: When the curtain falls, paychecks are delayed, services stall, and the media declares in all caps: REPUBLICANS ARE TO BLAME!
Government funding expires at the end of the day on Sept. 30, and without action, much of the federal government would close. Republicans narrowly control both chambers of Congress but need some Democratic votes to reach the required 60-vote threshold to pass a funding bill in the Senate. Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and other Democrats are signaling they intend to use that leverage to reopen the fight over Trump’s domestic agenda, particularly provisions in his “one big, beautiful bill” that cut deeply into Medicaid and jeopardize subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. Together, the two policies threaten to raise costs or strip coverage from millions of Americans—and Democrats say they will not sign off on another spending bill without concessions.
It doesn’t matter if Democrats start or fan the fire, or if both parties stack the kindling together; the media has learned who their scapegoat is before a match is even lit.
A Never-Ending Blame Game
Remember the 2018-2019 shutdown? It was the longest shutdown in U.S. history because the Democrats dug their heels in over border security, while Republicans held their ground.
The result?
Newspaper headlines screamed that the GOP dragged the country into chaos.
We see the same thing every time: Democrats are cast as reluctant heroes who are forced to deal with dastardly villainous Republicans who twirl mustaches while Washington burns.
The reality is different, however. Both sides benefit from this repeating charade, but that’s a fact we never hear.
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