Democratic leaders keep prevailing in budget negotiations by defending things that Americans want.
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivers remarks at the opening plenary session of the National Association of the Advancement for Colored People's annual convention in Detroit, July 22, 2019.Having failed to repeal Obamacare, President Donald Trump and his party now plan to surrender their own achievement: budget caps Republicans once forced on President Barack Obama.
Recall what produced those budget caps eight years ago. The deep recession that accompanied Wall Street's financial crisis had sent the federal deficit soaring to $1-trillion; the 2009 economic stimulus Obama and Congressional Democrats enacted to stem the downturn pushed deficits even higher. Late that year, the Republican House agreed with Obama and the Democratic Senate to reverse many of those cuts. When that deal expired, with Republicans controlling the Senate as well, they struck another deal with Obama to roll them back. Last year, with Republicans commanding the White House and both chambers of Congress, they did it again.
Indeed, the deal does not shrink government. But considering that Republican as well as Democratic voters value the services it pays for, Walker might as well yell at the clouds. If left-leaning Democratic lawmakers such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her "squad" had the clout and inclination to push party leaders around that Tea Party Republicans did in 2011, Pelosi would have. But they don't.
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