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Shutdown threat recedes as Trump softens stance on wall.
AP News ^ | 12/18/2018 | LISA MASCARO, MATTHEW DALY and CATHERINE LUCEY

Posted on 12/19/2018 4:58:07 AM PST by Carriage Hill

President Donald Trump appeared Tuesday to back off his demand for $5 billion to build a border wall, signaling for the first time that he might be open to a deal that would avoid a partial government shutdown.

The White House set the tone when press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders indicated that Trump doesn’t want to shut down the government, though just last week he said he’d be “proud” to do so. The president would consider other options and the administration was looking at ways to find the money elsewhere, Sanders said.

It was a turnaround after days of impasse. Without a resolution, more than 800,000 government workers could be furloughed or sent to work without pay beginning at midnight Friday, disrupting government operations days before Christmas.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 4dchess; aliens; artofthedeal; illegal; trusttheplan; wall
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To: jimfree

He is saying that Trump is telling the Senate “show us something that will pass.”


21 posted on 12/19/2018 5:39:45 AM PST by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: carriage_hill

George Bush: Read my lips, no new taxes
Donald Trump: Build that wall

Does he want to be remembered like George Bush?


22 posted on 12/19/2018 5:41:25 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

SHTFU the wall will be built.


23 posted on 12/19/2018 5:42:32 AM PST by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: VastRWCon

Maybe Trump is really a spelunker because he seems to like to cave.


24 posted on 12/19/2018 5:44:33 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: bramps

“Well, one thing I am sure of. Next Christmas is either going to be much, much better or much, much worse for conservatives.”

Until conservatives begin to wear yellow vests or some comparable action it will only get worse. Unlike anytime in history, there are no regions that conservatives can flee to for economic/religious freedom.

congress: favors liberals
Press: Very liberal
Executive branch: conservative with a mix of liberal departments
courts: mostly liberal
education system: very liberal
voting public including manufactured voters: liberal
FBI/CIA/NSA Liberal management
other government agencies: very liberal
State government: mixed
military: barely conservative
Corporations: mostly liberal
InterNet: mixed
Baby boomers: mixed
Millennials: Liberal
Generation Z: Libertarian/conservative
illegal immigrants: very liberal
Catholicism: Liberal
Evangelical Churches: mostly conservative


25 posted on 12/19/2018 5:44:52 AM PST by Swirl
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To: carriage_hill

Folks, would it kill us to keep our powder dry a bit longer. Patience, grasshoppers. Carthago wasn’t delenda est in a day.


26 posted on 12/19/2018 5:51:52 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: shelterguy

maybe you should go hide in your shelter.


27 posted on 12/19/2018 5:56:20 AM PST by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: mewzilla

: )

you are correct

28 posted on 12/19/2018 5:58:06 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: carriage_hill

Folks.....Trump will get his Wall funds...one way or the other!!! Stand by!!! Remember....there is always more then one way to skin a cat!!!


29 posted on 12/19/2018 5:58:51 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: bert

Hee hee. I can relate to that.


30 posted on 12/19/2018 6:00:29 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: VastRWCon

I’m just telling it like it is. I have been a huge supporter of Trump since Day 1 but he caved last summer with the CR and he is caving now.

Spelunker.


31 posted on 12/19/2018 6:02:39 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: minnesota_bound

Something I heard the other day:

“This morning I was listening to a morning talk show and—as is the case since his death - there’s a lot of conversation about President George H. W. Bush. Bill Bennett, who served under GHWB, was being interviewed.

One of the questions that the commentator asked as “ How would you compare George Herbert Walker Bush to Donald Trump?”

I think Dr. Bennett`s response was brilliant when he replied, “...the world is an ever changing place, sometimes you need Mother Theresa and sometimes you need Dirty Harry.”.

That sure sums it up.”


32 posted on 12/19/2018 6:07:03 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Spok

Just on un-credible AP, that I found so far.


33 posted on 12/19/2018 6:07:59 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: shelterguy

Needs 60 seats in the Senate, and that isn’t there at the moment.


34 posted on 12/19/2018 6:11:11 AM PST by rb22982
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To: shelterguy
Maybe Trump is really a spelunker because he seems to like to cave.

***Snort***

35 posted on 12/19/2018 6:11:12 AM PST by del griffith
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To: carriage_hill

I trust that President Trump is doing the best he can neck deep in a sea of traitors.


36 posted on 12/19/2018 6:14:02 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: rb22982

Needs 60 seats in the Senate, and that isn’t there at the moment.
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And it never will be. The democrats are perfecting vote fraud and the media doesn’t even pretend to be unbiased anymore.


37 posted on 12/19/2018 6:15:28 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

Trump blinks. We are not getting the wall. It was THE campaign promise. I don’t see him getting re-elected without it. The Rats stole countless race not a word about it. The inevitable was delayed by 4 years is what it amounts to.


38 posted on 12/19/2018 6:26:12 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy
Say good bye to 3.5% GDP, low unemployment, on shoring of production and retaliatory tariffs. Say goodbye to supreme court nominations with a chance of upholding the Constitution.

The no wall means the end of the Republican party because everyone knows who to blame here and it ain't Trump.

39 posted on 12/19/2018 6:30:00 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Swirl

Add Hollywood and pop culture-very liberal, and very effective in shaping public opinion.


40 posted on 12/19/2018 6:30:50 AM PST by daler
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