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America’s ‘Do Harm’ Congress

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Edward Luce: “Harry S Truman famously branded Congress as ‘do nothing’ in 1948. To be fair, the then Republicans were obstructing the Democrats’ agenda because they disagreed with it. Today’s Republicans, on the other hand, are blocking steps that they urgently demanded which reflect their priorities. To enact them would show that government works and America’s existential border crisis can be fixed, which would harm Donald Trump’s case for the presidency. They will not take yes for an answer. America is suffering by design from a ‘do-harm Congress.'”

“It is a conscious effort to darken the horizons for electoral profit. If that means another 10 months of border ’emergency,’ and deep Ukrainian setbacks on the battlefield, so be it.”

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