Since the government shutdown began, President Donald Trump has suggested multiple times that the furloughed and unpaid workers are mostly just Democrats. “Do the Dems realize that most of the people not getting paid are Democrats?” he tweeted on Dec. 27, just days after the shutdown began. Trump repeated the claim a little more than a week later, tweeting that he didn’t “care that most of the workers not getting paid are Democrats” and wanted to reopen the government anyway. The not-so-subtle hint here is that Democratic Party–supporting federal employees are the main ones harmed by the shutdown, so he doesn’t have that much reason to care if they’re furloughed or working without pay, or at least he doesn’t have as much reason to care as Democrats.
from Stories from Slate http://bit.ly/2sB9E0Q
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