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I'm grateful that the shutdown will end, but I do not understand why it happened.
The President agreed to the same deal @SpeakerPelosi offered him in December. He could've spared the country the longest shutdown in US history.
Why did Trump inflict this shutdown on the country?
The President agreed to the same deal @SpeakerPelosi offered him in December. He could've spared the country the longest shutdown in US history.
Why did Trump inflict this shutdown on the country?
Trump could have spared 800,000 federal employees the suffering caused by missed paychecks, rent payments, medical procedures, and every other deprivation that came with 35 days of no pay.
He could have spared the country the scenes of its public sector workers waiting in lines for food banks, airports shut down and tax returns jeopardized, national parks closed, and so many other essential services halted.
This shutdown accomplished nothing. It inflicted extreme pain on the people I represent without reason.
As the President approaches the new deadline he just agreed to for the expiration of government funding, he must think of people besides himself. This must never happen again.
As the President approaches the new deadline he just agreed to for the expiration of government funding, he must think of people besides himself. This must never happen again.
