No it isn't "BACK." The Republican House members, or at least their Whip, Tom Emmer, have made their congressional web CONTACT pages harder to get the message to them. To me, knowing they're responsible for the shutdown, but hiding from accountability, is crude. Face the music. Don't go hiding from the people telling you to STOP AND BE REASONABLE.

NO. NOT SO! --- source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/  --- Republicans sent AMERICA into SHUTDOWN!!

That "AMERICA IS BACK" is untrue - America is still half in hiding over causing the shutdown. 

Specifically, Republican House members, discernibly, are MIA and in hiding over their shutdown of out government - for example, compare contact pages at official gov sites, Amy Klobuchar vs. Tom Emmer. 

The formerly easy Emmer "contact page" thing is changed. Even using a capcha. They know responsibility for the shutdown is theirs, and want to avoid a landslide of public contact telling them so, and saying STOP! 

Repubs - Take responsibility, and accept accountability. Don't hide.

 Clearly it's speculative to base a conclusion of wanting to avoid a landslide of criticism, but the fact remains. It is easier for Citizen Crabgrass to navigate an opinion to Amy, rather than to Tom. 

That is an objective fact, and a Senator, one would expect, would be harder to reach than a local District Rep. Perhaps, Emmer being GOP Whip expects more grief over the shutdown, being in Repub leadership, and hence more responsible than rank and file GOP folks. But it's petty to hide. It shows. People notice.

It's cowardly.

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Still on whitehouse.gov, looking for truth. (Sad task)

From the site: 

 

Well. Compare a screen capture from today's online Strib homepage -

 The food crisis caused by the lengthy Trump Shutdown is the featured news. It has been featured by Strib earlier in the week - and before then. Since its beginning - People  - the more vulnerable among us needing food assistance - suffer most from the Trump Shutdown. They cannot afford supermarket prices, need assistance, and the Republican Party is denying them relief unless Democrats cave in on wanting healthcare kept affordable for most Americans. It is sick.

It is the Republican Party at its worse, and it hurts every one of us, some more than others. Except, Elon and Bezos and Larry Ellison's family, buying up media while milking cash cow ORACLE. They are above suffering, they and other billionaires such as Trump or Bloomberg, the Clintons, you can name more but there are some - many actually - with great enough wealth to weather Trump Shutdown suffering. In fact, they don't suffer at all. They want the bulk of the people to be dinged if they can gin up a few dollars more. They are The Trump Constituency. That's the truth. Not the horde of MAGA voters. The latter, expendable. The former, the essence of Trump 45 and Trump 47 beneficiaries. 

 CNN online, reporting its insight into the full reach of the food crisis -

The US Department of Agriculture has said it does not have the money to pay $8 billion in food stamp benefits for November amid the funding impasse on Capitol Hill that led the government to shut down on October 1. The agency argues it cannot tap into its roughly $6 billion contingency fund to cover next month’s benefits, though Democratic lawmakers and advocates claim the USDA should — or is even obligated to — use the money.

Without help from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the formal name for food stamps, many recipients are going to have to decide whether to use their limited budgets to buy groceries, pay rent, fill prescriptions or turn on the heat, said Ed Bolen, director of state SNAP strategies for the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Tell me again, which branch of the government runs the Ag Departimet? Who mandates its policies? Crabgrass was unable to find the word "Agriculture" anywhere on the whitehouse.gov homepage. If that word appears on the site's "Executive Actions" https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/ sub-site, it must be on pages 2-41, buried there somewheere. Possibly. Not page 1 content.

Love Trump? If you can afford to Crabgrass cannot stop you. If you suffer because of it, love can hurt.

 FURTHER: Interested readers should try: search = Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The 501(C) operation has a wikipedia page. Homepage = https://www.cbpp.org/

Such search may help readers understand aspects of the Trump Shutdown; decencies and indecencies. The site does appear partisan, but with that in mind, consider its facts, suggestion and argument.