you guys really are that dumb eh?
Trump caved now, instead of just keeping them out for months or a year as he threatened, as the airports and other services were starting to shut down. Instead of just 800,000 in govt service work inconvenienced, millions more were about to be inconvenienced. Public sentiment for Trump had already started to sink and it would plummet once every day citizens started to feel the pain.
Trump thought the Dem's would cave first but they would not. They WILL not.
if Trump puts all of them out of work again, now after seeing all the pain and crying many of them were doing on TV, and if he uses them as ping pong balls, when he KNOWS the Dem's won't negotiate under that threat, he is doing nothing but hurting the workers and citizens as he already knows it does not work to get a deal. So what is the point other than hurting workers and citizens? And who is going to wear that if they do it deliberately and knowingly?