Convicted felon President-Elect Trump and Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson’s respective teams are considering simply letting a government shutdown happen and trying to blame the Democrats for it, even though Republicans have the majority and thus theoretically the votes to get a funding package through the House at least, and even though military members won’t be getting their end-of-month paycheck to cover credit card bills incurred over Christmas, and even though it’s going to fuck things up politically for Trump before he can even start further dismantling American democracy, they think it’s the right call at this juncture, Politico Playbook reports.
There’s a “fear that Democrats are so eager to trip up Trump, that when the debt ceiling next needs to be raised, they’ll demand the GOP make politically impossible concessions. Republicans will then either cave to Dems’ demands, or they’ll cause a breach of the debt ceiling, precipitating an economic catastrophe in Trump’s first year back in office. Under this logic, these Trump world figures argue, it’s better to face a shutdown now to try to resolve the issue,” the Beltway newsletter team writes, explaining the thinking behind this self-sabotage from a team led by a supposed practitioner of the “Art of the Deal,” who can play 12D chess blindfolded against multiple opponents.