One week into the government shutdown, top Republican leaders appear to have lost the plot.

President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune are straining to project a united front against Democrats, just barely concealing tensions over strategy that have snowballed behind the scenes since agencies closed last week.

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    13 days ago

    Trump’s concept of a deal in action … deal is he has to win, the other side just lose, always …

    So, he has a few things he wants in his hands, healthcare and a looming insurrection act (he secretly wants this, it brings full control), the democrats hold a vote of the epstein files and a plain budgetary block … and Trump can not allow the other side to get them, meaning the preferred action is to keep things in a stalemate as long as he can.

    I do not expect this to be resolved quickly, if it suddenly does happen there was external pressure from a side that Trump needs to listen to…