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The MAGA castle is built on fear. Trump has told the Congressional Republicans it’s ‘my way or the highway.’ Yesterday many of them pointed to a third path. Their way.
Trump wanted any bill keeping the government open to come with a provision suspending a cap on the national debt until 2027. This would have allowed him to cut the oligarchs’ taxes and fund his plan to expel millions of productive workers — consequently exploding the deficit — without having to worry about the debt rules currently constraining government expenditures.
Ironically, suspending the cap on the national debt is a Democratic priority.
The GOP has traditionally used the deficit cap as a tool to thwart Democratic social expenditures. However, this time around, the Democrats were not interested in giving a Republican President — one addicted to self-dealing, expensive sadism, and rewarding his friends — a blank check to execute his moronic and hateful incompetence.
Trump figured, as he was egged on by Elon, that with a House majority, the power of his threats to primary recalcitrant GOP Reps would unify the Republican caucus into a rubberstamp for his ambitions. He overestimated his sway.
Over the past three days, Trump failed to get his way — even with his own teammates. Thirty-eight House GOPers blocked the stopgap spending bill that the president-elect had publicly demanded after he tanked Speaker Johnson’s original version to keep the federal government up and running past Friday.
That was not the end of Trump’s ineffectuality.
On Friday night the House and Senate passed a different version of the spending plan — one that still didn’t include Trump’s demand to extend or end the debt limit.
The deficit hawks would not be pushed around by a serial bankrupt fraudster, addicted to debt, running the country as he once ran his casinos. And Trump was out of luck.
It doesn't look any better after the swearing in.
Trump wanted any bill keeping the government open to come with a provision suspending a cap on the national debt until 2027. This would have allowed him to cut the oligarchs’ taxes and fund his plan to expel millions of productive workers — consequently exploding the deficit — without having to worry about the debt rules currently constraining government expenditures.
Ironically, suspending the cap on the national debt is a Democratic priority.
The GOP has traditionally used the deficit cap as a tool to thwart Democratic social expenditures. However, this time around, the Democrats were not interested in giving a Republican President — one addicted to self-dealing, expensive sadism, and rewarding his friends — a blank check to execute his moronic and hateful incompetence.
Trump figured, as he was egged on by Elon, that with a House majority, the power of his threats to primary recalcitrant GOP Reps would unify the Republican caucus into a rubberstamp for his ambitions. He overestimated his sway.
Over the past three days, Trump failed to get his way — even with his own teammates. Thirty-eight House GOPers blocked the stopgap spending bill that the president-elect had publicly demanded after he tanked Speaker Johnson’s original version to keep the federal government up and running past Friday.
That was not the end of Trump’s ineffectuality.
On Friday night the House and Senate passed a different version of the spending plan — one that still didn’t include Trump’s demand to extend or end the debt limit.
The deficit hawks would not be pushed around by a serial bankrupt fraudster, addicted to debt, running the country as he once ran his casinos. And Trump was out of luck.

Not yet in office, Trump is already losing
The MAGA castle is built on fear. Trump has told the Congressional Republicans it’s ‘my way or the highway.’ Yesterday many of them pointed to a third path. Their way. Trump wanted any bill keeping the government open to come with a provision...
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It doesn't look any better after the swearing in.