Donald Trump has a pretty simple message for the hundreds of thousands of workers feeling the pain of his government shutdown: “I don’t care.”
In a Saturday morning tantrum tweet, the president said, “I don’t care that most of the workers not getting paid are Democrats.”
“I am in the White House ready to go, where are the Dems?” Trump added.
I don’t care that most of the workers not getting paid are Democrats, I want to stop the Shutdown as soon as we are in agreement on Strong Border Security! I am in the White House ready to go, where are the Dems?
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2019
Hundreds of thousands of workers are being squeezed
While the president continues to play politics over a border wall that nobody wants, hundreds of thousands of workers are hurting.
Trump’s government shutdown is hurting lower and middle-class workers. #ctl #p2 pic.twitter.com/vBOv3OaZCz
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) January 5, 2019
To the out-of-touch billionaire president, this might be a fun reality TV stunt, but to hundreds of thousands of Americans working without pay, it could mean they don’t have enough money to feed their families or keep a roof over their head.
To them, there is nothing fun about this Trump-created shutdown.
The political affiliation of government workers is irrelevant
Donald Trump has offered no evidence – surprise! – to back up his claim that most federal workers are Democrats, but what he’s missing is how irrelevant that would be, if true.
American workers don’t have their party affiliation marked on their paychecks. When they use the money to pay the bills, feed their family and support their loved ones, they aren’t thinking about politics.
If Trump treated governing the country the same way, he wouldn’t be holding the government hostage right now.
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Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
