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Trump Calls Schumer's Bluff: "If There's A Shutdown, There's A Shutdown... Democrats Would Be To Bl
Zero Hedge ^
| April 27, 2017
Posted on 04/29/2017 12:58:12 AM PDT by Yosemitest
(title truncated, full title Trump Calls Schumer's Bluff: "If There's A Shutdown, There's A Shutdown... Democrats Would Be To Blame")
With Democrats seemingly unsatisfied with Republicans dropping border wall funding and adjusting on Obamacare-related items, it appears President Trump is calling Schumer's and Pelosi's bluff, proclaiming"If there's a shutdown, there's a shutdown," adding that Democrats would be to blame if the federal government was left unfunded.
Schumer today:*SCHUMER: TRUMP CONCESSIONS BRING SPENDING DEAL CLOSER TO FINISH
*SCHUMER SAYS 'SOME STICKING POINTS' LEFT ON SPENDING BILL TALKS
*SCHUMER SAYS REVISED GOP HEALTH CARE BILL 'WORSE' THAN INITIAL
*SCHUMER SAYS ISSUE OF POISON PILL RIDERS STILL OUTSTANDING
Pelosi added:
*HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER PELOSI SAYS WALL FUNDING ONE ISSUE
*PELOSI: UNCERTAINTY RE OBAMACARE COST-SHARING PAYMT ALSO ISSUE
*PELOSI: TYING STOPGAP SPENDING TO HEALTH BILL WOULD BE STUPID
And so, as Reuters reports, President Donald Trump downplayed the severity of a potential government shutdown, making it clear who will be to blame...
"We'll see what happens. If there's a shutdown, there's a shutdown," Trump told Reuters in an interview, adding that Democrats would be to blame if the federal government was left unfunded.
Trump added that a shutdown would be a "very negative thing" but that his administration was prepared if it was necessary.
As part of the budget negotiations, Democrats have called for financial support to prop up Puerto Rico's Medicaid program covering health insurance for the poor, but many Republicans are opposed to the idea.
Trump also said it would be unfair to offer a debt bailout to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, because it was unfair to people in U.S. states.
"I don't think that's fair to the people of Iowa, and I don't think it's fair to the people of Wisconsin and Ohio and North Carolina and Pennsylvania that we should be bailing out Puerto Rico for billions and billions of dollars," Trump said.
" No I don't think that's fair."
Notably, while equity markets are whistling complecentlypast the graveyard, USA sovereign risk has surged back to its highest (relative to Germany) since Trump's election as the threat of a government shutdown gets priced into a non-manipulated market...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: budget; schmuckschemer; schumer; trump
Someone should do a parity rap of "The Schubert Shutdown Socialists Shuffle" with animated cartoon characters !
To: Yosemitest
pray that Trump stands up to the RINOs and drains the swamp
He needs to unchain Wilbur Ross & Carl Ichan this weekend
800,000 inessential federal employees
1,000,000 consultants
is a start
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posted on
04/29/2017 1:03:17 AM PDT
by
vooch
(America First)
To: Yosemitest
If the government shuts down, make sure that its the Democrats who suffer...not Americans. No cutting off Police and Fire protection. Just stop payment on the welfare checks.
To: Yosemitest
>> The Schubert Shutdown Socialists Shuffle
No need to poison Schubert.
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posted on
04/29/2017 1:30:27 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Gene Eric
Damn autocorrect, you can't take your eyes off of it for a second.
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posted on
04/29/2017 2:03:18 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
Schumer’s got his big boy pants on. But they don’t fit...and they’re falling down again. Dems voted tp stop the shutdown in droves.
To: Cowboy Bob
Why share anything with the democrats? Just tell them they have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it. They can relate to that.
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posted on
04/29/2017 3:24:57 AM PDT
by
blackdog
To: vooch
The widely welcomed self-destruction of the Democrat Party continues unabated!!! I luv it!!!
8
posted on
04/29/2017 3:41:34 AM PDT
by
JLAGRAYFOX
(Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
To: Yosemitest
Where’s the media that usually whines and moans about obstructionism?
9
posted on
04/29/2017 3:45:53 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: Yosemitest
The rats and some republicans use this as an extortion tactic to get what they want
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posted on
04/29/2017 3:56:43 AM PDT
by
ronnie raygun
(Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
To: ronnie raygun
The GOP Has a Nuclear Option ...:
Rick Klein and Shushannah Walsh:Want to really blow up the Senate and fast?
A new proposal is emerging that would likely do just that, and it has nothing to do with Senate Democrats vow to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
A proposal is being pushed by some Senate Republicans that would seek to ensure that a House-passed bill could be passed intact by only a simple majority of senators.
How would that work?
Well, the vice president, of course, is the president of the Senate.
The thinking goes that if the Senate parliamentarian ruled that parts of the bill cant be folded into budget reconciliation, Vice President Mike Pence could simply overrule that.
Sen. Rand Paul wants the White House to make that commitment now:That alone, I think, would break the logjam, he told reporters Thursday.
Perhaps, but thats not all it would break.
This would be the executive branchs changing the rules of the upper legislative body.
Filibusters could be broken, perhaps in any circumstance, at the whim of the vice president.
In honor of a certain former veep, that would be a BFD.
Here's more from an excerpt from another source about the option of
"The Nuclear Option for Legislation in the Senate":
Cruz Pushes Obamacare Repeal Gambit That Could Roil the Senate
... Cruzs answer:lean on Vice President Mike Pences gavel to dodge those procedural limits and broaden the legislations scope.
Its not at all clear whether Cruzs colleagues will go along.
The move relies on a radical interpretation of the vice presidents constitutional role as presiding officer of the Senate,where he could step in and effectively overrule the chambers parliamentarian.
It would resemble the so-called nuclear option of ending filibusters ...
... Representative Dave Brat of Virginia, the conservative who unseated then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a 2014 primary, told reporters he doesnt buy leaderships excuse that they cant pursue a far bolder plan.
He said Ryan is overstating the case that existing rules cant allow an insurance overhaul. He wants to be respectful of Senate rules, I do not, Brat said.
From what I understand, Brat said, whoevers sitting in the chair has authority over the parliamentarian.
So they can rewrite the rules.
To speed passage of an Obamacare replacement -- and circumvent Democratic opposition, Republicans opted for a budgetary procedure called reconciliationthat requires only a simple majority in the Senate,
but only if the legislation has minimal effect on the deficit.
GOP leaders, including Ryan, have said this is limiting their ability to include provisions popular with conservatives like selling insurance across state lines.
The Texas senator, who had dinner with Trump this week, said Ryan and Senate GOP leaders are wrong.
You dont need to override the parliamentarian or get a new parliamentarian.
It is the vice president who rules, he told reporters Thursday.
Having Pence rule against established norms for what is allowed in a reconciliation bill would undo decades of Senate tradition of deferring to the parliamentarians rulings.
It could also potentially allow both parties far wider latitude in the future to avoid a 60-vote threshold for all sorts of provisions that dont directly impact spending or taxes.
Representative Trent Franks of Arizona, another conservative, said trying to craft an Obamacare repeal bill to meet the Senates current interpretation of its rules is "untenable."
"... If you get the job done he looks a little differently on the other side," he said.
... "Under the Budget Act of 1974, which is what governs reconciliation, it is the presiding officer, the vice president of the United States, who rules what is permissible on reconciliation and what is not, Cruz said.
And that is a conversation I have been having with a number of my colleagues. ...
So in ending the DemocRATS
'political war', let me end my comment by stating,
"It's time to NUKE THE DemocRATS !"
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posted on
04/29/2017 4:26:49 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Yosemitest
Nobody gives a damn about Puerto Rico. The precedent for illinois and California is what really matters
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posted on
04/29/2017 4:29:40 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
To: Yosemitest
Stop blaming the Dems and blame the RINO’s.
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posted on
04/29/2017 8:17:58 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Yosemitest
The thing is that the Dems are TOTALLY BLUFFING when it comes to shutting down the government over the WALL.
They know they’re on the wrong side of this issue in the first place, and they know that Trump will be directing resources to make it especially painful for them...including their government workers. They also know that Trump can simply say “NO BACK PAY”, which will end any shutdown virtually overnight, and on Trump’s terms.
Trump has ALL THE CARDS - too bad he’s still listening to Ivanka and Jarad - rather than Bannon.
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posted on
04/29/2017 9:25:34 AM PDT
by
BobL
(In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
To: Yosemitest
Even your software knows Schumer needs to be corrected.
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posted on
04/29/2017 12:50:09 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Gene Eric
Now that's funny !
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posted on
04/29/2017 1:40:00 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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