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Congressman Mark Meadows, Trump whisperer
[Politico] When Mark Meadows didn’t get President Donald Trump’s chief of staff gig, he wasn’t losing much.Just 10 days later, the powerful conservative lawmaker managed to engineer what has since become the longest-running government shutdown ‐ convincing Trump to pull the trigger right as the partial closure was on the brink of being avoided. Meadows picked up the phone to make his move just after Vice President Mike Pence had told lawmakers over lunch on Dec. 19 ‐ two days before government funding would expire ‐ that Trump was prepared to sign a clean spending bill to keep the government open through early February. The North Carolina Republican, who helped shutter the government in 2013 during a revolt against Obamacare, wasn’t prepared to back away from demanding funds for a border wall. And despite Pence’s clear-as-day comments, he assumed the president wasn’t either. Meadows was right. A lengthy and revealing article Posted by: Besoeker 2019-01-20 |
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