Shutdown’s effects

I am a moderate Democrat who is happy that some Democrats broke ranks to reopen the government. While I am against ever shutting down the government — they are always painful, and accomplish little — the Democrats were well within their rights to ask for something in exchange for their votes. Republicans would do the same.

I don’t think anyone was expecting the President Donald Trump’s response. Instead of trying to protect Americans from the worst of the shutdown’s effects, he did his utmost to make it even more painful. Whether it was laying off federal workers, deciding who would (and wouldn’t) get paid, cutting food stamps (SNAP), or making air travel a nightmare, he was intent on twisting the knife to inflict as much pain on the average American as possible. In th

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