Trump produced the longest government shutdown in history. It was also the dumbest.
He always wants to have the greatest of everything. Well, here’s one of the greatest mistakes of his presidency.
Congress finally crafted a budget deal to provide border security that President Trump was willing to sign. This was made possible only after Trump insisted on $5.7 billion to build a concrete wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and then proceeded to shut the government down for 35 days to get his way.
Now he has agreed to a budget not much better than where he started last year, and to make up for his defeat he has declared a national emergency to bypass Congress. But the centerpiece of this fiasco for the president was the government shutdown, a glaring failure for the would be dealmaker-in-chief.
What made Trump’s shutdown so dumb?
