An aide to former GOP House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) who worked through four government shutdowns explained to Meet The Press Friday how Donald Trump made this one so much worse.
"One of Mitch McConnell's favorite sayings is there is no education in the second kick of a mule," Michael Steel, the former aide to Boehner and In this case, he got kicked by President Trump square in the forehead at the outset of this shutdown."
Steel added that he doesn't "see any incentive" for McConnell to step in and put an end to the shutdown that will soon become the longest in history.
Passing an agreement to reopen the government would require a bipartisan solution and a "change of heart" on the parts of Democratic leadership as well as McConnell and Trump, the former GOP aide said.
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