Thanks to visit codestin.com
Credit goes to www.dailymotion.com

Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 2 days ago
The bitter tribalism that drove the United States into a government shutdown is putting compromise out of reach, analysts say -- and threatening to turn a staring contest between the Democrats and Donald Trump's Republicans into a protracted crisis. As the nation enters its second week with federal agencies paralyzed, multiple strategists with vivid memories of previous standoffs told that the president and his foes could be in it for the long haul.

Category

🗞
News
Transcript
00:00The bitter tribalism that drove the United States into a government shutdown is putting
00:08compromise out of reach, analysts say, and threatening to turn a staring contest between
00:14the Democrats and Donald Trump's Republicans into a protracted crisis. As the nation enters
00:20its second week with federal agencies paralyzed, multiple strategists with vivid memories of
00:26previous standoffs, told AFP the president and his foes could be in it for the long haul.
00:33Andrew Konischewski, a former press secretary for Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader at
00:39the center of the latest deadlock, said, It's possible this shutdown drags on for weeks,
00:44not just days. He added, Right now, both sides are dug in and there's very little talk of compromise.
00:52At the heart of the showdown is a Democratic demand for an extension of health care subsidies that
00:58are due to expire, meaning sharply increased costs for millions of low-income Americans.
01:05On Sunday, Trump blamed minority Democrats for blocking his funding resolution,
01:10which needs a handful of their votes. They're causing it.
01:14We're ready to go back, Trump told reporters at the White House, sounding resigned to a shutdown
01:21dragging on. Trump also told reporters his administration has already started to permanently
01:27fire, not merely furlough, federal workers, again blaming his rivals for causing the loss of a lot of
01:34jobs. In March, when the threat of a shutdown last loomed, Democrats blinked first, voting for a
01:41six-month Republican resolution to keep the coffers stacked despite policy misgivings.
01:47But Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, was lambasted by the party's base and will be reluctant to cave
01:54this time around as he faces potential primary challenges from the left.
01:59For now, Senate Republicans are banking on their Democratic opponents giving in as they repeatedly
02:10force votes. Jeff Lee, a former senior official in California state politics who negotiated with
02:17the first Trump administration, said,
02:19I could see a temporary agreement coming from both parties by the end of October.
02:26He added,
02:27Anything beyond two months would halt government operations seriously and potentially impact
02:32national and homeland security considerations, casting blame on both parties.
02:39A shift in the strategy would likely depend on either side, noticing public sentiment turning
02:45against them. Analysts told AFP polling so far has been mixed, although Republicans have been
02:51taking more flack than Democrats overall. Trump presided over the longest shutdown in history
02:58in 2018 and 2019, when federal agencies stopped work for five weeks. This time around, the president
03:07has been ratcheting up pressure by threatening liberal policy priorities and mass layoffs of public
03:13sector workers. James Druckmann, a politics professor at the University of Rochester, sees Trump's
03:24intransigence as a reason to believe this standoff could rival the 2019 record. He said,
03:32The Trump administration views itself as having an unchecked mandate and thus generally does not
03:38compromise. He added, Democrats have been critiqued for not standing strongly enough, and the last
03:45compromise did not result in any positive outcome for Democrats. Thus, politically, they are inclined to
03:51stand firm. The 2018 to 2019 shutdown cost the economy $11 billion in the short term, according to the
04:01nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, and $3 billion was never recovered. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott
04:09Besant has warned that the latest shutdown could wreak its own havoc on GDP growth. For California-based
04:16financial analyst Michael Ashley Schulman, the economic realities of the shutdown may be what end up
04:22forcing compromise. He said, If Wall Street gets spooked and Treasury yields spike, even the most
04:30ideologically caffeinated will suddenly discover a deep commitment to bipartisan solutions. Not all
04:38analysts are gloomy about the prospects for a quick resolution.
Be the first to comment
Add your comment

Recommended