Posted on 12/28/2018 11:26:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The government is seven days into a partial shutdown, and pretty much everyone has thrown up their hands until the new Congress is sworn in after the new year.
Democrats are growing increasingly confident that President Donald Trump’s immovable demand for $5 billion for his southern border wall is going to land him with the blame, and indeed, polling is already starting to suggest that could be the case.
Democrats are now weighing their options for a way to end the shutdown — something they plan to make one of their first orders of business after they take control of the House on January 3. There are still seven outstanding appropriations bills that have yet to be passed, and Democrats are looking at a couple of different ways to tackle them.
As reported by Politico, House Democrats are discussing three options including 1) a short-term continuing resolution that would fund those seven areas of the government at their current levels through February 8, setting up another showdown between Democrats and Trump; 2) a longer-term continuing resolution that would fund the government through September 30 and kick this fight down the road; 3) a so-called “CRomnibus” package that would include six appropriations bills and a continuing resolution just to address the thorny issue of Homeland Security funding....
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
No Wall Funds, No Deal. Rather Simple.
Let it last two more years. The Democrats won’t be able to appropriate anything on their own, and this will disempower their illegitimate, stolen House majority.
Remember, the Democrats’ lifeblood is patronage. Without it, they have no support. Their patrons will not put up with this indefinitely, while Trump’s supporters are happy to see fedgov “shut down” (even if it’s not really so).
The Left is trying to play chicken with a semi while driving a convertible. Game on, I say.
I wish Trump would hold out for the submission of a real budget with the wall fully funded.
What has he got to lose?
They will make just as big a stink about 5B as they would 25B.
5 billion is appropriately one tenth of one percent of an annual budget.
Kind of like cat puke on the floor.
25 billion is 0.5 of 1% of annual spending
He started out at $25 billion. It is the Dems that are immovable.
Zero risk for Trump to stand firm. He cannot be more hated or attacked or investigated or more at risk of impeachment.
Stand firm, nothing to lose.
Right, “polling” as the sole basis for their belief in victory.
How typical. If the democrats voted to throw kittens into a wood chipper, their dutiful tools at Reuter’s IPSOS or wherever would produce a poll showing support for it.
Agreed.
Nothing Trump does will appease the left.
He is free to do as he pleases.
At day thirty, some fear among the DC employee crowd who have gone and missed one paycheck. At day sixty (late Feb), I think a great deal of chatter will start up. What you will get is an offer on the table to fund 1-billion dollars for 2019, and maybe 1-billion for 2020 (a promise signed on paper). I think Trump will push back and in mid-March...it’ll be agreed to fund 2.5-billion in 2019 and 2.5-billion in 2020.
Frankly, at that point...most of the Trump promises will have been accomplished and I would suggest that he will announce he won’t run in the 2020 election by August of 2019.
Vox is tard
A hairball a cat wont re eat
I'd love to see him up the ante by a billion dollars a week, until the Dems cry uncle.
Somebody’s going to panic. Up the ante.
You see there? The President has his own think tank right here on Free Republic, and we even write his talking points for him.
He needs to use that every time he talks about the shutdown.
Excellent work, NTI.
You can feed gold fish with cat puke. No one has found a viable use for Vox yet.
Democrats are now weighing their options for a way to end the shutdown...
If they are confident, why are they looking for away to end it quickly?
Bingo!
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