US Federal Government Shuts Down 1 Year Into Donald Trump's Presidency

PHOTO: WH capital.

The United States federal government has shut down. At the time of this article, its been over 14 hours since the shutdown commenced after the US Senate failed to pass yet another consecutive continuing resolution to temporarily expand the government's funding for another month until both sides of the aisle can come to a larger agreement.

It is the first time the United States of America's Federal government shuts down in five years; back in 2013, the Obama administration's government was left unfunded by (majorly) the Republican Party. However, Trump's shutdown in particular is especially important as it's the first time a party's government shuts down with full control.

The Republicans won control of the House of Representatives, as well as the US Senate all the meanwhile their GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump won control over the White House. But here we are; the government still managed to shut down.

The CR (continuing resolution bill) did pass the House; though with some resistance. It was then sent to the Senate, where their long-time extended voting period finally came to an end around two and a half hours after voting commenced. The government had already been shut down for nearby 35 minutes when it was announced.

Donald Trump's anniversary through ending his first year as president of the USA is coming with a bombshell shutdown that doesn't appear to be short-lived. Many predicted that the shutdown would be terminated hours after it started, but due to horrible and botched negotiations, it still hasn't ended.

In the case of Obama's shutdown, the Dems played off their strategy well and the GOP's goal for shutting down the government was left empty promised. The government, however, was left shutdown for over 16 days.

At the time of the 2013 shutdown, now-President but then-Private Citizen Trump had expressed his dismay with the shutdown and said he believed that Obama would receive much of the blame even if it was the Senate's fault the government closed. He told Fox News that he believed that the President always ends up getting blamed.

As the same happens to him in 2018, only five years later, the Republican party is edging closer and closer to a backlash as they continue pointing fingers across the aisle to the Democrats for shutting down the government; forgetting to acknowledge numerous Dems that voted 'Yes' and Republicans that voted 'No' on the CR.

Democratic Sen. Minority Leader Schumer, in one of the minority/majority leaders' many speeches, said that negotiating with President Trump was 'like negotiating with Jello', saying it was "close to impossible". He poked significant blame at Trump, all the meanwhile Trump, his party and his base slammed Schumer and Dems for it.

The blame party won't end anytime soon, and will continue throughout the campaign moments for the 2018 midterms. It surely won't be determined as blamed by any sides, but clearly isn't properly blamed on either sides alone. Both played large parts.

The Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell reportedly will propose yet another continuing resolution (CR bill) that extends the government's time for negotiations by 3 weeks instead of yesterday's botched-voted for 4 week bill. It's unexpected to pass, as Dems and Republicans had been quite consistent in their votes so far.

Many of the 'No' votes for yesterday's CR had mentioned that they did not think another continuing resolution was the way to go, and they wanted to see final results. Not another delay.

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