🏛️ Politics 6d ago · Valerie Yurk

Who’s the shutdown scapegoat now?

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As Senate Majority Leader John Thune hashed out a deal aimed at ending the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, he may have thought Democrats were its biggest threat.



Instead, his fellow Republicans across the Capitol were the ones to tank it.



Now, instead of blaming Democrats for prolonging the shutdown, GOP leadership in the House and Senate are pointing fingers at each other. And it’s deepening fissures that were already forming between them ahead of the midterm elections. 


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