At Cabinet meeting

Trump Complains Congress’ New Border Deal Is “Not Doing The Trick”. But We’ll Bet He Signs It Anyway…

Yes, The Agreement Is An Example Of True Bipartisanship. It Also Helps That Neither Side Wanted To Give Trump Much Of Anything…

Let’s look at the stakes for the bipartisan conference committee in getting this deal hammered out, because we think people are vastly underestimating how much damage could’ve been done to Congress as a whole had they not. We think there’s a good chance this would’ve become a milestone moment in the Trump Presidency, and not a good one:

1. Aside from sagging poll numbers and increasing fury among federal workers (who, among other things, had the ability to shut down airports), lawmakers said they were confident they could reach an agreement if Trump just ended the shutdown an gave them a couple of weeks. He did.
2. If those lawmakers had not come up with an agreement, the President could’ve said: “I let Congress try to do its job. They couldn’t. So now we’re going to do it my way. And also in the future about many other things, because it’s the only way these days of getting anything done.”

And even though that would’ve been a giant and perhaps irreversible step toward authoritarianism, even we…