As Trump causes drama in Congress, Biden stays silent and on the sidelines - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Between the Capitol Hill drama and the angry missives from Mar-a-Lago and Musk posts on X, the GOP infighting nearly drowned out something significant: that Biden's disengagement, as much as anything, was a symbolic marker of the close of his time in power, and the dawn of Trump's.
39% : The president kept quietly to the sidelines as Trump and his ally Elon Musk torpedoed a bipartisan deal to fund the government and other priorities days before the deadline.
39% : but we'd rather do it on Biden's watch," Trump said in a joint statement with Vice President-elect JD Vance.
32% : Trump, meanwhile, has gleefully seized the void, seeking to effectively act as president well before he takes the oath of office on Jan. 20.
28% : To make matters more complicated, Trump insisted Congress add a two-year suspension of the debt ceiling so he wouldn't have to deal with the fraught political football as president.
27% : The reason Trump gave was clear: he wanted to stick Biden with one last indignity.
25% : "If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under 'TRUMP,' " Trump wrote on Truth Social.
23% : Until Wednesday, however, there was no indication Trump was intending to exercise any de facto veto power over year-end spending legislation -- much less a package negotiated by Johnson, his close ally.
22% : As House Speaker Mike Johnson began scrambling on Wednesday for a last-minute solution that could pass his chamber, the Democratic-controlled Senate, and satisfy Trump, the man with actual veto power over any bill did not make any public statements about the situation.
10% : Beyond his public silence, no indication emerged that Biden was aggressively working behind the scenes to head off a shutdown that Trump explicitly wanted to blame on him.
9% : It's possible Biden and his team deliberately sat back to keep the focus on Republicans' internal disagreements and the chaos injected by Trump, which dominated headlines and sparked questions about how the second Trump administration might govern.
9% : As Republicans revolted over that demand and tanked a Trump-backed bill Thursday, Trump attempted to embrace a shutdown, so long as Biden took the blame.

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