Late last night on Capitol Hill, all but three of the Senate’s Democrats rejected a clean CR bill to keep the Federal Government open, forcing the government to shut down. The Republican CR bill included no cuts and funded the government at current spending levels, meaning that Democrats are entirely responsible for this debacle. Their decision to shut down the government means delaying the already meager wages of our troops in order to fund $1.5 trillion in new spending on leftist pet projects, and the radical leftist agenda. This act of political seppuku by Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries is yet another piece of evidence that Democrats are incapable of self-government and Democrats should prepare themselves for President Donald J. Trump’s response.
Many of our Club members remember a time when Democrats took great pride in fiscal responsibility. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Bill Clinton and his economic advisors, Bob Rubin and Larry Summers, would routinely attribute the robust economic growth of the period to deficit reduction and they were absolutely correct in their analysis. Every dollar the government spends must come from taxation or borrowing. However, taxation destroys jobs and borrowing puts upward pressure on interest rates, which also destroy jobs. If the government tries to finance borrowing by printing money, it usually destroys jobs AND creates inflation (just ask Jimmy Carter). And yet, this same Democratic Party now fights ferociously to subsidize healthcare for illegal immigrants, releases violent and psychotic criminals onto our streets, rationalizes terror attacks on ICE agents, and cheers on the assassination of our heroes, like Charlie Kirk.
President Donald J. Trump has threatened to unleash hell on Democrats for shutting down the government, and the New York Young Republican Club welcomes the fight. If Democrats want to fight over funding the government, they are in for a battle they cannot win. Already, 100,000 far-left federal workers have resigned in protest, an act of political seppuku: ritual suicide by disembowelment. President Trump is threatening to take actions “bad for [the Democrats] and irreversible by them,” like cutting leftist pet projects and spending programs. Let’s be clear: this government shut down is entirely on Democrats. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries own this shutdown and its consequences for this Nation.