More than a week into the first government shutdown in nearly seven years, congressional Democrats are showing no signs of backing the GOP’s proposed clean continuing resolution that would maintain federal spending at the sky-high levels of former President Joe Biden‘s presidency. Nor do they seem willing to admit why they’re holding some 900,000 federal workers hostage.
According to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), Republicans are actually to blame, and they’re keeping the government shut down to conceal the nonexistent Jeffrey Epstein files. Ask Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), and it’s all a part of President Donald Trump’s plan for an “authoritarian takeover” to “tilt the election playing field [his] way and destroy the idea of truth.” In the words of Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), “This is
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