The President went along with it you know. I suppose it can be argued that he had little choice, or maybe he did. But it cannot be argued that he didn't go along.
Add to that the advice he was getting from "experts"...who were probably Swamp Creatures...and we find ourselves in this $hitstorm.
Blame? 90% "experts" and Rat Party officeholders/operatives...10% Trump.
You are right. He allowed this. The buck stops with him.
Trump went along with the shut down, but what is worse, he did not seem to focus on the damage it was doing to the economy. We had weeks and weeks of the two doctors telling us we were all going to die, even when the information showed only a very small segment of the population is truly at risk. As soon as the shutdown began, there should have been a much greater effort to resume as much of the economy as possible. You just can’t let panicked reaction continue without taking a breath and analyzing what it really happening.