As the government shutdown drags on, Trump is using his leverage to shape it - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The Department of Energy canceled grants for clean energy projects, including in New England.
53% : Charles Kieffer, a longtime government funding expert who worked in the Office of Management and Budget for multiple administrations and for Senate appropriators, said the administration's moves to fire workers, to continue to approve permits for fossil fuel projects, and to use money set aside for research and development to pay troops cross a legal line.
45% : Democrats have voted multiple times against a short-term funding extension supported by Republicans, they say because Republicans must negotiate to extend COVID-era Obamacare subsidies for health insurance and give ironclad promises that the Trump administration will spend the money they appropriate as directed.
41% : Programs such as Social Security and Medicare that are not paid for in yearly funding bills do not shut down, though presidents have made different choices about which ancillary pieces of those programs, like customer service, are also kept open.

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