"Still, we are told Trump himself was unhappy with the terrible images we all saw emanating from Minneapolis over the weekend and concluded that the "narrative" blaming the shooting victim that his subordinates were peddling was "falling apart," as The Wall Street Journal put it. So now he's trying to "pivot" to create a different narrative about a strong but understandably distracted president getting his house in order."
"But bad optics isn't the only reason for this alleged pivot. Half the federal government is almost certainly going to shut down on Friday, thanks to a packaging strategy congressional Republicans deployed earlier that makes it impossible to deal separately with the DHS funding that's now toxic to virtually all Democrats. There's no obvious legislative way out of the quagmire, so GOP lawmakers are frantic for Trump to throw DHS critics some tasty bones, as Punchbowl News reports:"
Trump reacted negatively to the disturbing images from Minneapolis and is attempting a messaging pivot to present himself as a strong but understandably distracted president restoring order. The urgency increases as a federal shutdown now appears likely because a packaging strategy tangled DHS funding inside a larger appropriations bill, making a separate DHS fix politically toxic. Congressional Republicans want to avoid reopening the massive bill and are pressing for executive or other nonlegislative measures to satisfy DHS critics. Senators Susan Collins and Katie Britt described initial talks focused on actions Trump could take outside the legislative process to avert the crisis.
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