Ignored by their Republican colleagues and mocked by President Donald Trump as “ridiculous,” Democrats in Congress seem poised to force the federal government into a shutdown.
It’s a political risk, but Democrats are giving a simple reason: Republicans, through the evisceration of health care and other federal programs, are about to make poor Americans poorer in order to make rich Americans richer. Therefore, Democrats must take a stand on behalf of the working class. As House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries put it this week, “cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save health care.”