re: #238 Jay C

While I think/hope you’re quite right about the results of this fall upcoming tax/budget fiasco (the “hope” being that there is always the current status quo to fall back on), I’m not sure just how the Asshole-in-Chief can actually “shut down the government” on his own hook. I’m sure he would try (or like to), but aren’t the funding mechanisms for the government a matter of Congressional, rather than Executive, authorization?

He has to sign the debt ceiling change. He also controls the actual spending, though he hasn’t done much with that up to now.