Trump's Turbulent Transition: A Government Shutdown Looms

All this after an election in which Democrats gained a couple of seats and Republicans lost ground in the House which means Republicans' margin for getting anything passed in the House is now smaller than at any time in the past century And now on top of all that as what we expect to be his last act presumably before Christmas we just had transition Trump run the Republican-controlled House right up to the precipice of another government shutdown the closest we have been to a government shutdown since the last time Trump was president I mean Trump has made a lot of errors and unforced humiliating own goals in this transition And I think the media should cover it more that way The idea that this is a normal transition this hasn't just been gaffe after gaffe and own goal after own goal and reputational harm after reputational harm Trump not only tanking his own political capital but just side swiping every other powerful Republican in Washington while he is doing it as he mishandles all of these nominations It has been a terrible shambolic transition But on top of everything else that he has done with all of these nominations and the way he has mishandled them the brush with a government shutdown this weekend made Trump look not just error-prone and easily confused but also weak The whole drama over whether or not to shut down the government you'll remember was not started by Trump