Democrats face the battle on the rise in the government which has closed its doors with Trump

Democrats make a big bet by accompanying a government closure, which they will probably lose.

The most important reason is that President Trump has a giant megaphone. Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer just can’t compete in media attention.

What could be more, while some Americans can blame both sides – cannot act like adults and determine these budgetary fights? – The Republicans blame the “Democratic Party” for having triggered the closure.

At the briefing of the White House of yesterday, itself a key advantage, JD Vance and Karoline Leavitt continued to repeat, like a mantra, that the Democrats support “health care for illegal foreigners”. It’s superimposed. They are not eligible. It is already against the law, except in emergency situations. But Trump beats this message at home out of pure rehearsal.

Vance blames Schumer’s fear of the primary AOC challenge as the cause of the judgment

Democratic leadership is in considerable disadvantage with regard to messaging linked to the government’s closure. (J. Scott Applewhite, File / AP Photo)

A Washington Post editorial Yesterday says that “the Democrats just walked in a trap to stop … The progressives adopted the same disastrous mentality which led the Caucus of Freedom House to believe that this could arise in these conflicts of the financing of the government: they wrongly assumed that their political lever effect would resist the fallout that followed.”

A few minutes after the briefing, Hakeem Jeffries walked in front of the microphones to declare that the Republicans do not want to provide health care “to the Americans of the working class”.

The minority chief said that the administration was trying to “blur their extreme right program in the American people’s throat … The republican health care crisis is immoral. “”

Frankly, it did not seem so energetic or did not have the same impact.

Vice-president JD Vance suggested that the chief of the minorities of the Senate Chuck Schumer, Dn.y., is rotated for fear of a main challenge of the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Alex Brandon, Pool / AP Photo)

Whatever the immediate assessment of the closure – the soldiers and the hundreds of thousands of civilians are not paid, the food coupons pending – Vance and Leavitt blamed it in democratic intransigence. (Those licensed will be replaced once the closure is over.)

The vice-president said that Schumer moved to the left because he is terrified by a main challenge of the AOC. She says that her only goal is to “stop this madness”.

The president was more candid, saying to journalists: “We can do things during the closure which are irreversible, which are bad for them and irreversible by them. Like cutting a large number of people, cutting things they like, cutting programs they love.” Now it’s transparency.

DESMS do not hold the high morale with regard to kick votes to delay a closure, having frequently used the tactics when they were in charge. While Vance says that they would be happy to talk about health care for a seven -week delay, the other party believes that they would lose any lever effect, and it would be politically humiliating.

Democrats make a more complicated argument on health care, and it is a more difficult sale for the many millions that do not follow the news.

Kff, who is Kaiser, says that people on Obamacare would be heated if the tax credits are allowed to be expired at the end of the year. The average bonuses of next year would be $ 888, but without the tax credits, it would drop to $ 1,593 – an increase of 114%.

This would really paralyze the affordable care law and eliminate millions of rolls.

Social security, airports, food coupons: how are you assigned when government closure?

The other objection of the DEMS consists of deep cups of Medicaid, despite Trump’s promise to protect the program. But that’s why we have elections. Having lost the room, the Senate and the White House, the party cannot expect the GOP to make radical changes to its favorite budget.

This happens – a coincidence, I am sure – that the administration interrupted 18 billion dollars yesterday of two major transport projects in New York, the enlargement of the metro of the second avenue and new train tunnels under the Hudson river.

A blow in the hometown of Schumer? Vance says it is a question of “sorting”, saving money on such projects to preserve essential services.

But it is really a case of Trump which goes after the democratic priorities, as he said, since he has preserved funding for one of his pet projects, the mission of returning to the moon, which seems less than vital for the moment.

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The chief of the minority of the Hakeem Jeffries room, Dn.y., seemed indignant by an image of the AI ​​of him shared online by the president. (Nathan Posner / Anadolu / Getty Images)

What really made Jeffries Fou after the unsuccessful meeting of the White House on Monday was a false image of AI published by the President. This represented him as having a handlebar mustache and carrying a huge sombrero, with Mariachi music in the background.

Jeffries called the “racist” parody and demanded that the president “say it to my face”.

The main thing, given the atmosphere of mutual distrust, is that this government closure could have a little time. This would gradually increase the level of pain, and the Democrats are already disadvantaged.

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At this stage, the opposition party tries to show the public that it can fight and that, beyond the battle for health care, may be its main message.