Government Shutdown Over DACA Drops to 34% Support Among DEMOCRATS!

[Yousaidwhat]

Shut it down or get agreement over Daca.

Shut the Government down.

For as long as possible.

All non-essential jobs eliminated.

Send the illegals home.

No Amnesty.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Do not pay federal employees back pay for the period of the shutdown. Or make them take vacation time, no sick pay.

No work, no pay!

 

[theHawk]

I hope the Dems force a shutdown over DACA. They’ll lose big time in the midterms over it.

 

[Preacher]

As the midterm elections approach, Democrats will likely take credit for having “elevated the national debate” with the shutdown, thus making Trump's misguided racist DACA/immigration stance and attitudes increasingly unpopular. Insofar as they haven't a majority in either chamber of Congress, the shutdown option is the only one they have if they are to prevent our tax money from being used to build a dumbass "big beautiful" wall that's not needed insofar as even without it, per Trump, illegal immigration across the Southern border is down somewhere between 60% and 75%. Nobody, least of all people ad nauseum bitching and moaning about government waste and government spending in general, spends $18B or more -- one will recall that Trump claimed the Wall's cost would be about $8B, which itself was too much given the illegal immigration reduction it would stand (no pun) to yield -- to stop the small quantity of people who illegally enter the U.S. via the Southern border.

And then there's this: The GOP, having control of Congress and the WH, didn't have to wait until the last damn minute to bring funding legislation to the floor. Instead of last year passing a continuing resolution, they could have simply passed a damn funding bill for the whole of FY 2018 and we wouldn't be in this situation.

Lastly, for all the hoopla GOP representatives and voters make about the government spending too much, one'd think they'd be thrilled to have the government stop spending money and drastically cut payrolls, even if just temporarily. Below is a chart detailing the furlough rates of every agency with more than 1,000 employees that submitted updated shutdown plans when the government last December faced being shutdown due to lack of funding.

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The reality is that for all Conservatives' talk about despising federal government spending, the reality is that it is they and their states that most depend on and most benefit from it.

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States with the most minorities on welfare....no wonder the south is so heavily represented.