Donald Trump yields to Democrat pressure and lifts closure of government – 25/01/2019

His body language was an obvious defeat. Sorry, without grandiloquent gestures or exaggerations, the President Donald Trump The White House announced Friday the lifting of three weeks of the government 's closure that had affected a little over a month hundreds of thousands of public service employees and announced its intention to negotiate with the democrats a budget planning a millionaire game for the construction of a wall on the Mexican border. It was a huge political blow for the tycoon, who had to yield to what the opposition asked since the beginning, he has not had a dollar for his wall and must now start trading from scratch.

"I am very proud to announce that we have reached an agreement to reopen the government," said Rose Garden president. Trump thanked the federal employees for their efforts during the closing of the administration, the longest in the country's history, and badured that they would begin to collect unpaid wages "as soon as possible ". He said that if a consensus was not reached later, he could declare the state of emergency to release the funds without congressional approval.

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The agreement does not include a word of 5,700 million dollars Trump sought to realize his great campaign promise, but unblocks funds for the federal operation until February 15. The situation for the president became very complicated: 800,000 civil servants without pay for a month, but to survive, closed offices and millions of backlogs, problems at airports due to the lack of air traffic controllers and the economy that was already starting to feel the damage.

And the worst for Trump: according to polls, the Americans blamed the president for closing the government and not the Democrats, and one in five felt paralyzed, according to a poll by ABC and the Washington Post. At the same time, the president's disapproval rate has risen 5 points in the last 3 months.

Reluctantly, Trump warned that his efforts to convince people that his wall was vital to end the humanitarian and security "chaos" at the border had been in vain. Even in the interior of the country, where the electoral base that had catapulted him to the White House in 2016 is already installed, the president began to complain about the government's paralysis. The mogul is also affected by the advance of "Russiagate", because the trade war with China finds no firm ground and still does not give results in its announced and pompous thaw with North Korea.

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Trump had no choice but to give in and store in the closet his title of "great negotiator", which had imposed itself in the 80s when he had writes his book "The art of agreement". Now will have until February 15 to try an agreement, but has already granted a vital victory to Democrats during the first major political test he had to face since the opposition regained control of the House of Representatives in last November's elections.

"I hope Trump will have learned the lesson," Senate Senate Leader Democrat Chuck Schumer said at a news conference. At his side, Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the representatives. With a soft tone and a smile, this relentless legislator twisted the President's arm and declared that they had finally realized what they had been asking from the beginning: to negotiate without carrying the weight of the closure on their backs. This is the big winner and adds another fundamental victory after realizing Thursday that the president has agreed to postpone his speech on the state of the Union.

Consulted by ClarinLouis Caldera, a government professor at the American University, said that "the public blamed Trump for closing the site and was even losing the support of those who, at its core, supported his uncompromising approach to immigration The consequences – damage to the economy, the impact on air travel and injuries among federal officials – created enormous political risks, and in this context, he and his cabinet proved to be carefree and uncontacted plutocrats. the poorest. "

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In addition, he noted that "many Republicans in the Senate were increasingly dissatisfied with the political cost incurred by Trump for a wall that never got the support of the majority, even when Republicans controlled Congress."

Caldera added that Trump "had developed bad habits when he had a Republican Congress that could harbad, ignore or even threaten if he did not support his agenda." Now, you have to develop new habits, such as When hearing it, Nancy Pelosi taught her a lesson she will not have to repeat, being tough enough not to give in to her demands, even when she hurts federal workers, the poor and others who depend on the government and many federal programs what she believes. "