Democrats Are To Blame For Rising Health Care And Energy Prices
Green energy and Obamacare are terrible wounds on the American body politic, and Trump deserves great credit for ripping off the bandage.Green energy and Obamacare are terrible wounds on the American body politic, and Trump deserves great credit for ripping off the bandage.'Cracks in the Schumer armor': White House adviser says government shutdown may be ending soon
As the government shutdown closes in on its third week, some members of the Trump administration believe that Democrats may soon be willing to come to the table.
Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, suggested that the end could be in sight for the government shutdown.
'I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end some time this week.'
In a CNBC interview, Hassett said, "A lot of our friends in the Senate have said that it was just bad optics for Democrats to open the government before the No Kings rally, and that now there's a shot that this week things will come together and very quickly the moderate Democrats will move forward and get us an open government."
The No Kings rallies, a series of feeble nationwide protests against the Trump administration, took place on Saturday. With this event in the rearview mirror, Hassett argued, Democrats may be ready to come to the table.
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"There are sort of cracks in the Schumer armor. I think the Schumer shutdown is likely to end some time this week," Hassett said.
Democrats have similarly expressed hopes to reopen the government, but the entrenchment is far from over.
According to CBS News, Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) said on Sunday during an interview on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," "We should be able to wrap this up this week if they will sit down and have a negotiation with us."
However, it is unclear whether this prediction will be substantiated this week. Democrat holdouts have not publicly indicated any change in their demands, though some moderates have already sided with Republicans on a clean continuing resolution to reopen the government.
Blaze News contacted the White House for comment but has not received a response.
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Vance points to the leaked texts Americans really should care about: 'I refuse to join the pearl clutching'
Vice President JD Vance emphasized the Democrats' hypocrisy in feigning outrage over leaked group-chat texts while failing to condemn their own candidate who said far worse.
On Tuesday, Politico published a series of private messages between young Republican operatives that contained distasteful language and jokes. Although many Republican officials have condemned the profanities used in the leaked messages, Vance pointed out that they've buried the lede.
'I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence.'
Jay Jones, a Democrat running for attorney general in Virginia, remains embroiled in his own scandal after leaked texts showed he fantasized about giving his Republican adversary "two bullets to the head."
"Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy," Jones said in another text after fantasizing about the deaths of the Republican's children.
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"This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia," Vance said of Jones' texts. "I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence."
Several prominent Democrats jumped at the opportunity to condemn the leaked texts exchanged by young Republicans without condemning the violent rhetoric espoused by their own candidate.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the college students' texts "sickening" and "vile," saying, "This is the kind of garbage that the worst kind of people say when they think nobody is watching." At the same time, Schumer has not made a single comment about Jones, who, unlike the young GOP activists, is running for public office.
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Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia took it even farther. Even after Jones' texts were leaked, Kaine said he's "still supporting" the candidate.
"He has apologized," Kaine said. "I wish other people in public life would sincerely apologize for stuff. ... I still am a supporter."
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