{"id":1003476,"date":"2019-01-22T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T21:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003476"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:10:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:10:37","slug":"editorial-boards-continue-to-slam-trump-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/editorial-boards-continue-to-slam-trump-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial Boards Continue to Slam Trump Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are more than a month into the longest shutdown in our nation\u2019s history, and the American people have had enough. In fact, even Trump supporters are sick and tired<\/a> of Trump\u2019s temper tantrum, and editorial boards across the country continue to take the president to task for keeping nearly 800,000 federal workers furloughed or working without pay.<\/p>\n

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Houston Chronicle<\/a>: \u201cReopening the government should be treated as a separate issue from deciding what to do at the U.S.-Mexico border. It\u2019s time to stop holding people hostage in this fight merely because they work for the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kansas City Star<\/a>: \u201cLow-income households will suffer the most. Their food benefits could be cut back considerably in March and then eliminated altogether in April if the shutdown continues, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. No family should go hungry in this country. But those in need could become collateral damage if the government remains shuttered and the philanthropic community can\u2019t fill the void.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Newburyport News<\/a>: \u201cMembers of the Coast Guard are first responders at sea who aren\u2019t paid what they\u2019re worth in the best of circumstances, and now get paid nothing. The collective instinct to help them weather this government shutdown, with tip jar collections or donation drives or formal actions of the Legislature, is noble. After all, these are members of our community, and we who live near the coast rely upon their service most. But the Massachusetts Legislature, city hall, local clubs and the people down at the coffee shop aren\u2019t responsible for paying the Coast Guard. That duty falls to Congress and the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Times<\/a>: \u201cThis week, Trump\u2019s Council of Economic Advisers estimated that the partial government shutdown was slowing the U.S. economy by about one-eighth of 1% per week. That may not sound like much, but the debilitating effect is twice as great as the White House had previously suggested. Economists had projected growth to be anemic in the first quarter of 2019 even without a shutdown; if the impasse continues for another month or so, the economy could actually start to contract.The credit rating agency Standard & Poor\u2019s put the shutdown\u2019s cost to the U.S. economy at about $1.2 billion per week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lowell Sun<\/a>: \u201cThe demoralizing experience of being told to work without pay, for almost a month so far, can only cause many of these key security personnel to reconsider their commitments to government service. Others will be deterred from joining in the first place. Yes, employees will get back pay. But how does the federal government get back its reputation as a stable and, indeed, rational employer?\u201d<\/p>\n

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San Francisco Chronicle<\/a>: \u201cIn fact, Trump is the author of this longest shutdown in history \u2014 now entering its fifth week and likely to reach a full month \u2014 with more than a little help from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who won\u2019t allow votes to reopen shuttered agencies without the president\u2019s permission.\u201d<\/p>\n

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York Dispatch<\/a>: \u201cThe proposals \u2014 crafted by a handful of Republican insiders led by the president\u2019s son-in-law, White House advisor Jared Kushner \u2014 seem intended not so much to end the shutdown as to shift the blame, which has increasingly and correctly landed at the doorstep of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Serious compromise should be conducted with the opposing party, not delivered as a take-it-or-leave-it public pronouncement[…] If Trump ever decides to get serious about ending the standoff, he must negotiate directly with Democratic leaders. And that doesn\u2019t mean demanding money for a border wall and then storming out when he doesn\u2019t get his wish.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Columbus Dispatch<\/a>: \u201cSome in Trump\u2019s orbit believed he was nervous about the economy and fretting about the negative coverage he was getting over the showdown; others close to the president were encouraging him to stay the course, believing he had leverage. That\u2019s not how it looks from 3,000 miles away. If Trump loses in a landslide in November 2020 because of an economic downturn triggered by his intransigence, that would be rich with irony. But it would also be accompanied by a lot of human misery.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>: \u201cThis mess belongs \u2014 lock, stock and missed paychecks \u2014 to the president, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans. Republicans who, don\u2019t forget, couldn\u2019t pass a budget, with or without a southern border wall, when they controlled the White House and both houses of Congress.The ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government has gone from glitch to embarrassment to national security threat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Beacon Journal<\/a>: \u201cPart of what is expected of a president and lawmakers is that they address problems. In this instance, the president has created trouble. \u2018I\u2019ll be the one to shut it down,\u2019 he said. He did so by rejecting a temporary solution to a budget impasse. And now he insists on getting his way. That isn\u2019t how governing works in a divided government.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Previously:<\/p>\n

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Montana Standard<\/a>: \u201cThere is not a crisis on the border. Violent crime is not up, there or elsewhere in the country. It is at a 14-year low. Immigrants here illegally do not commit a disproportionate amount of crimes. In fact, they commit less, on a per capita basis, than native-born Americans do. And a wall is not viewed by experts as the best tool to use in enforcing border security.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy, then, is this worth shutting down the government?<\/p>\n

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\u201cMany federal workers here in Montana are working without pay. Others have simply been furloughed. Either way, their families are suffering needless hardship.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Houston Chronicle<\/a>: \u201cThe shutdown is affecting employees ranging from air-traffic controllers to border agents to NASA scientists. Meyers, the public defender whose office hasn\u2019t been affected by the shutdown yet, is fearful that for the first time in history, the judiciary will go unpaid as well: \u2018I think people are really angry,\u2019 she said. \u2018They feel like we\u2019re hostages to this. Just open the government and figure it out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Albany Times-Union<\/a>: \u201cThis isn’t TV though. It’s a real-life drama that’s hurting more than 800,000 federal workers who as of last week are no longer receiving the paychecks they need to cover their mortgages or rent, their grocery and day care bills, and all the other costs many Americans juggle paycheck to paycheck just to get by. It’s affected countless other people who work under contract with the federal government, and all the people and businesses that all those workers and contractors do business with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Delmarva Now<\/a>: \u201cOn Delmarva, however, the pain is being felt, and will compound as this maddening standoff in D.C. continues. Assateague Island National Seashore is still accessible, but NASA Wallops Flight Facility is at a standstill. At the heart of this problem is that it impacts a lot of people’s jobs, thereby hurting their ability to pay rent and mortgages, buy necessities and carry on about their lives as a working contributor to the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Harrison Daily Times<\/a>: \u201cThe U.S. Department of Agriculture, which funds federal nutrition programs including school lunches and food stamps, says it can fund these programs through the end of the month, but February could be another story.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEven local breweries, who have provided a jolt to an otherwise stagnant state economy in recent years, say they are being held back by the shutdown, with the introduction of new labels on hold until the federal government gets back to work. “It’s anti-small business,” says one brewer, accurately.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jersey Journal<\/a>: \u201cA business owner\u2019s foremost responsibility is to ensure his or her employees are paid \u2013 correctly and on time. Donald Trump should know that. But, either he\u2019s so far away from the idea of cashing a paycheck before paying the rent, buying groceries or getting growing kids new shoes that he\u2019s clueless or he simply doesn\u2019t care about his 800,000 federal employees.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Austin American-Statesman<\/a>: \u201cTrump is responsible for turning it into a political crisis, and the president said nothing Tuesday night to justify the partial government shutdown that resulted from his demands over border wall funding. Congress and the president need to end this shutdown and start constructive discussions on the best ways to address the challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>: \u201cTake it from Illinois, this federal government shutdown is nothing but bad. And the man at the top will get most of the blame, as he should. For those of us who just lived through four years of such stupidity in Illinois, there\u2019s a sense of deja vu in a partial government shutdown forced by a self-adoring man of business habituated to getting his way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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New Jersey Star-Ledger<\/a>: \u201cBut what started out as a symbol has become a dangerous fixation, one responsible for mothballing massive sectors of our government and keeping 800,000 federal employees at home without paychecks \u2013 despite Congress steadfastly refusing to fund his wall, despite consistent public opposition, and despite overwhelming evidence that the impact on drug trafficking would be negligible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>: \u201cDemocrats are right to rebut the ugly message that Trump spews when he discusses the southern border, as he did Tuesday night in a prime-time address from the Oval Office (complete with fundraising appeals before and after).\u201d<\/p>\n

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Baltimore Sun<\/a>: \u201cThe irony has been lost on President Trump, who has made little mention of the financial hardships those who keep the government running could be facing and has in fact tried to say such workers support the shutdown and are on his side. Does he really think workers support a shutdown he has claimed could go on for years? Who can afford that?\u201d<\/p>\n

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CT Post<\/a>: \u201cCongress, including most Republicans, voted just weeks ago to keep the government open without funding for a border wall. The president was about to sign it into law when he changed his mind, likely prodded by conservative media personalities. This is no way to run a government.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MassLive<\/a>: \u201cAnyone who has been paying even a bit of attention to the ongoing partial government shutdown that Trump created knows well that it’s all about the president’s demand for a wall on our nation’s border with Mexico. He wants to fulfill his prime campaign pledge, and he is refusing to budge until Congress gives him $5.7 billion for construction of part of his wall. The one he used to say that Mexico would pay for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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