Politics of Caving

For decades, the way things have worked in Washington politics is for the Democrats to demand something, then offer a quid pro quo in order to make a “compromise.” Wash, rinse, repeat. It’s how we incrementally get more and more gun control, taxes, you name it. You give me a billion in funds for my district, and I will give you something that you want. The law then becomes a behemoth of special interests, graft, and corruption.

In the latest version of this, Chuck Schumer is holding Trump’s cabinet nominees hostage in exchange for Trump caving in and giving the Democrats $1 billion in cash for their favorite charities, which thanks do DOGE we now know will be funneled to provide funding for leftist NGOs, leftist movements, and ultimately into the pockets of Democrats themselves.

Schumer reportedly asked the White House to unfreeze about $1 billion of foreign aid and National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in exchange for allowing the confirmation process for additional Trump nominees to move faster.

Schumer had this to say about Trump’s nominees:

Trump “attempted to steamroll the Senate to put in place his historically unqualified nominees, but Senate Democrats wouldn’t let him.”

Then Schumer also said:

Democrats have been “working all week to try and find a reasonable path to allow bipartisan Senate consideration, provided the White House and Senate Republicans met our demands.”

If Trump’s nominees are unqualified, then how will giving the left $1 billion make them more qualified than they are now? This is a shakedown, no more, no less.

Trump isn’t part of that Washington inside circle, so he refuses to play that game. He told Chuckie to get lost. So now they are in a Mexican standoff. It will be interesting to see how things shake out.

Trump tried taking the advice of “bipartisan” appointees and tried playing by the business as usual rules, and look what it got him. Years of impeachments, accusations, leaks, several assassination attempts, and most of his loyal insiders indicted and financially destroyed. So now he isn’t playing their game.