The Government Shutdown Is Based on a 16-Year-Old Lie

Late Monday, with the deadline for a closure of the government only two days off, Congress leaders met President Donald Trump to try to achieve a feasible consensus to move forward on a continuous resolution to finance the government. The point of collision remained the insistence of the Democrats on the restoration of critical tax credits under the Act respecting affordable care – a loss of pending services created under the provisions of the GOP taxes bill. By pushing to extend these advantages, the Democrats were not only trying to protect the portfolios of the Americans who already work with spiral costs; They tried to assert that the extension of the advantages also favored the interests of the Republicans claiming a robust workers’ base. The head of the majority of the Senate, Charles Schumer, announced after the meeting that the president “seemed to understand for the first time the extent of this crisis”.

If so, he certainly had a funny way to show it. Later in the evening, Trump published a video of the AI ​​intended to show Schumer and his counterpart from the house, the representative Hakeem Jeffries, giving a press conference. In this document, Schumer is synchronized with a false voice saying that his party no longer has a “spokesperson, because of our awakened and trans bullshit” and hopelessly that “if we give all this health care of illegal extraterrestrials, we could be able to bring them alongside us and to vote for us” – until it learns. By leading the point home in a racist development, the video shows Jeffries sporting a giant sombrero and a false mustache while Mariachi Music plays in the background. (In the euphemist prose styles of torsion Washington PostThe stupid and hateful explosion of fanaticism becomes this: “A false video … With Schumer saying things about the advantages for immigrants he had not really said and Jeffries wearing a sombrero that he had not worn.”)

Thus, the American government stops on the strength of nothing more than the Maga brand lagging behind. The video published by Trump was vulgar and childish, but it was completely in line with the discussion of the Republican legislators refusing to consider democratic requests. Undocumented workers are not qualified to receive ACA or Medicaid advantages, any more than they can receive under-sale from social security or health insurance-another manufacturing of pets from Maga law. But whatever: the false affirms that the extensions of the ACA were gifts to undocumented undocumented immigrants through the magasphere throughout the week preceding the Trump meeting; Utah senator Mike Lee, vice-president JD Vance, and the president of the Mike Johnson chamber have taken the costs without enthusiasm, because they all know very well that the discounts of Medicaid and the ACA in the bill of expenditure of their party will feed a brutal peak of insurance costs. And as Trump’s video publication shows, the president appears all this demagoguery, with a more explicit racism.

As with most characteristics of the Trump agenda, it is not new on American law. Indeed, the bogus performances claim that tea has fueled the animus against the original passage of the ACA – as well as pieces of urban legend as “government’s death signs”. The political proof of concept behind this great particular lie came when the representative of the GOP Joe Wilson of Caroline du Sud rose and shouted: “You lie!“(Oh, irony!) At the first address of former President Barack Obama to a joint session of the Congress in 2009, while Obama explained that the advantages of his set of proposed health reforms” would not apply to those who are in the country illegally “. While Beltway experts have repressed Wilson for his breakdown of decorum and prophesied his political death, he sailed to re -elect on a massive transport of fundraising, and made the line of the right credible to, besides money through the present.

It is therefore appropriate that its lie on the ACA, which is now old enough to have an learner’s license, is the only justification for the GOP GOP to allow a stop to proceed. In reality, an extension limited in time of health coverage under the ACA would be a boon for the Republicans in the districts of centrists, who will already find it difficult to defend the Trump war on basic services, income support and entire government departments, alongside the Divolution of Maga law in manifest fascism. But again, these are political calculations that rarely hold the dedicated ideological troller – all that the consideration that the vast non -essential majority of the federal workforce of nearly 3 million members, 80 percent of which is located outside the metropolitan of Washington, on the indefinite college of September jobs, with more reluctant September jobs. (Maga-dratchiks are undoubtedly relieved to learn that the Labor Department has announced that a closure will delay the publication of job data.)

Maga’s dogmatism on the immigrant can say that health services are more than overheated reverie from the brain of the collective lizard of the right (although it is certainly also); This is a way of reporting that all government affairs are an imposed tip on a real longtime and abandoned America. The tacit promise throughout Maga’s propaganda is that Trump reverses the polarity of the trick, in order to restore real Americans in their place. It is the line through the Blitz Trans-Agence de la Maison Blanche publications on social networks on the way in which mass deportations and ice raids support a white white Heimat. This is the reason why the Department of Labor worked a giant Mussolini style banner in Trump’s face as a protector of workers the Labor Day (while on his own flows of social media, he had to be satisfied with images generated by the AI ​​of American workers). This is also why the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development – now under fire so as not to defend the basic protections of anti -discrimination under the Federal Housing Act – made an opinion on its website the day before closing the creation of the creation of “the radical left” which “will close the government and inflict massive pain in the American administration unless they get their American list. For fear that this is somehow too subtle, Trump also asked all the federal agencies to issue mass emails acting on the closure of democratic extremism.

Depending on the duration and punishment of the closure, this could point out a time when the authors of propaganda Maga have become far too high on their own supply. Beltway’s conventional wisdom has always been that the party provoking a government closure is the one who pays the price of the next electoral cycle. But this was not the case during the 2018-2019 closure, which, at 35 days, was the longest in the country – republican losses in 2020 were not even notionally attributable to the Trump crisis on the funding of the border wall, which was then stopping the GOP casus belli. (This episode now but forgotten also gives the extravagant lie to the affirmations of heavy breathing of the Republicans according to which the Democrats hold the government hostage on their requests – the coverage of health is at least one real thing, as opposed to a monument of 450 miles long to a vanity of a real nepo baby which is mainly produced for environmental damage.)).

A morning consultation survey published during the weekend revealed that 45% of respondents said that the Republicans would be blamed for a closure, with only 32% of responsible Democrats. This 13% margin actually increases to 17% among independent voters. Remarkably, republican voters were more likely to blame their party for a closure than Democrats. Meanwhile, the Kaiser Foundation, in a survey conducted during the summer, revealed that 77% of voters want the ACA credits to continue, against only 22% saying that they should be deleted. Democratic leadership remains, as always, unresolved and without a fictitium, but these lines of political trend seem to give them at least a plausible simulacrum of a spine. After all, without a gullible audience or a creaky opponent in Badger, most trolls simply end up sulking under a bridge.