Why is the media accepting the lie from trump that shutdowns trigger layoffs as if poor trump has no choice?
As Dan Moynihan wrote on bluesky: This is absolutely a lie. There is no reason shutdowns trigger layoffs. They never have before. Trump is simply using the shutdown as an excuse to take federal employees hostages and to further gut the government.
Because the corporate media just repeats his pronouncements unquestioningly, Trump has amped up this ridiculous threat, culminating in today when we just blurted out that they're going to lay off a lot of people and "they're gonna be Democrats."
He is emboldened by the stenographers covering him.
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