‘Hell did freeze over!’ Democrats now losing media allies in their campaign to keep government shut down
Washington Post editorial board: ‘If they persist, it could mean families start to go hungry’
America’s legacy media long have advocated for the Democrats and their agenda, and opposed President Donald Trump.
They worked during the 2020 election to suppress those scandalous details about the Biden family that were exposed in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden.
Good news about Trump? Rarely reported. Accusations, even false accusations, against him? In the headlines daily.
But something has happened.
Now the Washington Post editorial board, long antagonists of Trump, have “criticized Senate Democrats … for holding the government ‘hostage’ for a month in hopes of extending costly Obamacare subsidies and urged them to reopen the government by voting for a clean funding bill.”
That continuation of ordinary funding for the government is what the GOP has wanted for weeks. Democrats have insisted on raiding taxpayers’ bank accounts for another $1.5 trillion to spend on propaganda machines, health care for illegal aliens, and more.
And a broadcast personality on CNN, long an anti-Trump campaign headquarters, further has left conservatives stunned by calling out a Democrat lie, on the air.
It is Fox News that reports on the Washington Post’s change.
“The right answer is to reopen the government with a clean funding bill, ideally for a full year, to get food stamps flowing and federal workers back in the office, and then have a debate about ACA subsidies,” the board wrote. “Democrats openly acknowledge that they refuse to do this because it would mean giving up their leverage. If they persist, it could mean families start to go hungry.”
One result of the Democrats’ insistence that the government remain shut down is that funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, processed through food stamps, is running out this weekend.
That will mean, without a resolution, subsidies for millions of Americans’ groceries will expire.
“The Post editorial said one reason the government shutdown has dragged on for nearly a month is that ‘most Americans have felt no discernible impact on their daily life,’ but warned, ‘That’s starting to change.’ ‘This pain point, combined with three other dynamics, should help hasten an end to the shutdown as early as next week by making Democrats blink,’ the editorial board wrote,” according to Fox.
“The Post also noted that federal public employee unions are ‘losing patience’ with the Democratic Party, citing a recent statement from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents over 800,000 federal workers. The union said the shutdown is harming its members and called for swift action to end it,” Fox said.
Even a bigger surprise was a move by Kaitlan Collins, long an outspoken leftist at leftist CNN.
She stepped in to correct a false claim from Democrat Jasmine Crockett live on the air.
Crockett claimed that Trump said his “main priority” is a new ballroom at the White House.
The fact is that answer came in the context of a question asking about his priorities for “renovations” at the White House.
Social media commenters reacted: “So that’s why it’s so damn cold out, hell did freeze over!!!”
