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Trump still has a whopping 53 percent approval
rating.
In fact, the same CBS poll found that 68 percent of voters thought the
Trump administration is doing the “right amount” or even “not enough” spending cuts; only 32 percent said “too much.” And despite beaucoup negative coverage about Musk and his potential conflicts of interests, a
slim majority of Americans think Musk — yes, an unelected foreign-born billionaire — should have “a lot” or “some” influence on government operations and spending.
Recent polling aside, there’s another truism of shutdown fights that
should weigh on Democrats as they think through their strategy: Typically, it’s the party making the policy demand that sparks the shutdown that ultimately gets the blame.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer knows this all too well: When he and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi threatened to use government funding as
leverage to win protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the
U.S. and to halt border wall construction back in 2018, they backed down
in a matter of days.
Perhaps that’s why Schumer, in a “Dear Colleague” letter to his colleagues
Monday, said Democrats want to work on a bipartisan basis to keep the government open. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also hasn’t shown himself to be especially interested in picking a shutdown fight. In a
letter of his own Monday, he instead announced a “Rapid Response Task Force” that would take on Trump and Musk.
“I’m trying to figure out what leverage we actually have,” Jeffries said last week when asked about using a shutdown to stop Trump and Musk. “They control the House, the Senate. And the presidency. It’s their government. What leverage do we have?”
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