Republicans backed into a corner following 'political disaster'

Republicans backed into a corner following 'political disaster'

Republicans have pushed themselves into a "political disaster," wrote Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman on Monday morning. In the site's morning newsletter, it explained that for a short time, Democrats were being blamed for the government shutdown, with the message being that they refused to fund immigration agents, who had already been funded last year in Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." Now, officials are taking off for the next two weeks, lea…