😡So, CPAC deletes their pro-Putin tweet.
- Endorsing the "official annexation"
- Opposing aid to Ukraine

🤔Deleted - but how is this different than Trump-MAGA or the Republican Party itself now?

short thread🧵

➡️Defending Democracy is on the ballot this November 🧵thread 2/

😡CPAC deleted tweet:
“Biden and the Dems continue to send Ukraine billions of taxpayer dollars...”
“When will Democrats put # _AmericaFirst and end the gift-giving to Ukraine?”

📢Exactly the position of MAGA Republicans in Congress - voting to block Ukraine aid

Trump - Less than 3 weeks ago:

REPORTER: Does it concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist + that white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point?

TRUMP: "It doesn't concern me because many people agree with me."
Trump: "I will do whatever is necessary to stop an invasion of our country. That's what it is."
(April 2019)

via @atrupar

#TrumpsShutdown Thread

Yes, many federal workers will be hurt

Also: Economic Impact - businesses, state & local govt's, contractors

No new grants or contracts:
-Transportation - Infrastructure Week!
-USDA (farmers!)
-Commerce, Housing, EPA, NASA, more
latimes.com/politics/la-na… #TrumpsShutdown
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Congressional Research Service
(Congress telling itself the effects)

-Measurable effect on national GDP
-grants, programs + services - costs of delay
-state and local governments depend on federal funding (can’t help their own citizens)
fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R…