Washington, D.C. – Democrats are gambling with a shutdown and misleading the public by calling their $1.5 trillion spending spree a “clean” counter proposal. It is nothing more than a dirty, Counterfeit Resolution that crams in partisan policy and extraneous provisions, while pushing the nation closer to crisis and risking FY26 appropriations progress. The American people deserve to know what is in this partisan grab bag.
Just not true. Not like what is happening right now. It is apples and oranges, and pretending it is the same just makes it worse.
Tell it to Colin Powell and his Aluminum Tubes or the Curveball hoax. Tell it to Ron DeSantis as he waterboards Gitmo inmates for the 100th time, on the pretext of national security.
Tell it to the Reagan Admin and its lies about Nicaragua that justified sponsorship of the Contras and their massive rape and murder campaigns aimed at convents full of nuns.
Tell it to the House Unamerican Activities Committee or the Hoover FBI hit squads in their campaign to crush civil rights activism.
Tell it to the police that dragged Eugene V. Debbs into jail for his anti-war advocacy or the West Virginia National Guard as they butchered coal strikers at The Battle of Blair Mountain.
This is as American as apple pie.
You’re experiencing recency bias. What Trump is doing isn’t new. Your perception of it is new.