Republican Dysfunction is not just an opinion. It's real, and it's measurable. Republicans in the House of Representatives have a repeated history of dysfunction, causing long government shutdowns.
Of course, the President and the Senate have their part to play in shutdowns. But it can't be a coincidence that of all the days that the U.S. government has shut down over the last 40+ years, 93% of those days started when Republicans were in control of the House of Representatives. (source)
In fact, the three longest government shutdowns in U.S. history all started during a time when Republicans were in control of the House of Representatives. The last one (during the Trump administration) was the longest and most expensive in U.S. history. It cost Americans $5 billion. (source)
Unbelievably, this worst-ever, 35 day government shutdown started when the House, the Senate, and the Presidency were all under Republican control! They couldn't even agree among themselves long enough to pass a budget to keep the government running.
So how did it finally end? It was only after Democrats were given control of the House that they, together with outcries from the American public, were able to get Trump to give up his tyranny of extortion and get the government running again.
And it's not just shutdowns. Of the 11 recessions in the modern era, 10 have begun under Republican presidents. Also job growth has been significantly greater under Democratic presidents than Republican presidents since the early 1980s, and the national debt got worse under Trump than Biden. (source)
Economists warn that Trump (who, due to his incompetence, has had to declare bankruptcy SIX times) will balloon the national debt, just like he did before, with even more tax breaks for billionaires and huge corporations, and ruin the economy with his massive tariffs.
And we're the only ones that can stop him.
