Trump's favorite Feds
by digby
I'm pretty sure that Trump's tweet about the federal workers being Democrats comes from some right winger on Fox saying that they are all Public Employee union members, many of them African American. That's been one of their tropes for a very long time.
And his comment that federal workers want him to keep the government shut down until he gets his wall is probably true --- it was border patrol and ICE agents saying it. For now. They may end up wanting to be able to pay their bills more than getting that stupid wall which they know better than anyone is totally ridiculous.
And Trump found a way to at least pay some of the uniformed federal employees (the only ones for whom he shows any respect) --- the Coast Guard. I wonder if those Border patrol and ICE agents might be wondering why their hero hasn't gone to bat for them too? I mean, he's the smartest, greatest, strongest president the country has ever produced. Why can't he get them their paychecks?
Someone should ask why his big hands cannot help his favorite Feds? Why is he so impotent, so weak?
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