Political Quotes

“when Donald Trump was a private citizen during the last government shutdown, he said: Problems start from the top, and they have to get solved from the top, and the President's the leader, and he's got to get everybody in a room, and he's got to lead. That is what Donald Trump said when he was Citizen Trump. He is now the President. Now that he is the President, he has those shoes to wear. He refuses to step into them and step up. The only person who actually said that maybe we need a good shutdown is President Trump. Although I have to say that, recently, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney also said it was ``cool'' to shut down the government--unbelievable. It is definitely not cool. This attitude may explain why the President keeps shooting down bipartisan efforts to prevent a shutdown. Republicans control the House and the Senate. I don't know why we have to keep reminding Republicans that they control the House and the Senate. There is no reason for the majority leader and the Speaker to enable this Trump shutdown to continue. There is no reason to wait on the President to tell them to do whatever or to tell them what he believes, because Donald Trump is a changeling. He is incapable of being consistent. I witnessed this 2 weeks ago when I went to the White House with a bipartisan group of Members of Congress to find a path forward to protect the Dreamers.…”