“Trump, he’s had it with these people, because he knows they’re playing politics,” said the second person. “Nobody thought it was going to last this long.”
Trump and his top aides thought that unpaid federal workers, closed and limited federal facilities and threats of ever-more job cuts from Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, would be too much for Democrats to handle
“I don’t know what’s wrong with them,” he said of Democrats Friday. “They’ve never done a thing like this. They’ve become crazed lunatics. All they have to do is say, ‘Let’s go. Let’s open up our country.’ And everything snaps back into shape. So there’s something wrong with them… It’s their fault. Everything is their fault. It’s so easily solved.”
I think it’s just theater. Both sides pretend they our outraged by the shutdown while using it to cut all the things their donors wanted to cut for a long time. They will keep cutting social programs and firing federal workers as long as they can and when they finally re-open the government to great fanfares the programs and jobs will still be gone. All the money the government saved will then be funneled to the rich.
I said something similar and got destroyed