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President Donald Trump is trying to get a clean continuing resolution passed to keep the government’s doors open. The real fight is not this CR; it’s the budget reconciliation package. That fight is going to make this one look like child’s play. The president wants a six-month resolution, whereas Democrats want a short-term measure. They’ll give a string of shoddy reasons, but in truth, the Democrats are afraid of the Department of Government Efficiency and want to slow their roll as much as possible.
Yet, on our side, there is one Republican congressman with whom Trump has lost all patience: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). The president called for him to be primaried out of public life last night:
