The U.S. Senate is near to passing an agreement to reopen the government through the end of January. Once this deal passes the House, the real legislative budget negotiations will start. Then begins the key test for President Donald J. Trump and the Congressional Republicans.
The Democrats, propaganda media, and some squeamish Republicans will push for a one-sided collapse of the Trump agenda. They will want a narrowly focused negotiation which dramatically increases spending on COVID-19 insurance subsidies and rejects spending offsets (without solving the long-term problem). They will further reject important additional reforms and policies to boost the economy and shore up the debt.
This was the crisis moment for President Ronald Reagan in 1982 and 1983. He pleasantly refused to water down his reforms and stuck to his guns. It paid off, and America was better for it.
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