Posted on 02/11/2019 6:45:47 PM PST by upchuck
Congressional negotiators say they have reached an agreement in principle to avert a government shutdown at the end of this week.
The four lead bipartisan negotiators, emerging from talks Monday night, declined to get into details on how the agreement was struck, but when asked whether it included barrier funding and a resolution to the detention bed issue, Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby said: "We got an agreement on all of it."
Shelby's comments follow those from a Democratic aide involved in the border security funding talks who said earlier Monday negotiators are "very, very close" to an agreement and they are now checking to see if the emerging proposal would get the votes it needs to pass the House.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, a top Democratic negotiator, said the goal for the four lead negotiators was to reach a deal Monday night, then proceed to drafting the final agreement on Tuesday. "I think we both agree if we can wrap this up tonight, do it tonight, our goal will be to do it tomorrow," said Leahy, of Vermont, regarding his work with Shelby...
A Republican aide involved expressed some caution on the progress given the repeated breakdowns over the past few weeks, but acknowledged negotiators "are clearly moving in the right direction."
Another GOP aide said, "Hearing good things tonight."
Leahy would not specify how the issue of how many detention beds -- a key hold up from over the weekend -- was being resolved. "I'm not going to go into details," Leahy said as he headed to his Capitol office where the meeting was set to start.
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And no less than five authors for a story from the commie news network. These clowns are incompetent. Who decides on the final wording and how?
How will they screw us?
Yeah, I saw all the writers. Started to use just the first two, but then thought, “Why does it take 1000 reporters to write one simple story?”
I don’t trust the Republicans. I have never trusted the Democrats. If the Republicans and Democrats ever agree on anything, it is how they can screw us.
Trump has to remain strong on the wall funding and show the RATS for the anti-Americans that they are. It is now or never.
I hope PDJT doesn't sign it and the 25% of non-essential government workers get their asses sent home AGAIN.
Drain the swamp, cut the size of the FedGov behemoth by any means necessary, I say.
Pardon me for giving you an old fashioned answer, but that is the $64,000 question. I think they have screwed around with the wall funding, hoping President Trump will cave. I know he won't. Check this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l96NvLSyNho
They win, we lose.
Build the Wall by declaring a national emergency. This is one.
CNN. Those letters read as bullsh*t. If they have an agreement, how come PDJT hasn’t said anything. Because he’ll veto their stupid agreement..
“Uniparty meets together to fight Trump, border wall.”
1.3 billion for the wall..HELL NO!!
“The four lead bipartisan negotiators...:
They misspelled “Uni-party” once again.
Lol.
shutdown number two in five. ..four...
52% approval and Dems start to cave.
Also the 5.7 mil was for all types of security but not one dollar for a wall.....so we're getting piecemeal numbers.
The 1.37 Bil is wall specific.
Yes , The Rhinos and the Dems will limit the beds so they can flood this country with thousands of cheap labor invaders .
There was NO impasse .
This is a cheap PR stunt to ram this disaster sell out by Mitchy and McCarthy and the Dems ..
Only now we CAN NOT build more beds or detention centers .
The Unity party thinks we are stupid .
This was a set up .
The wall money is a joke .
The Dems wanted to limit the invader holding beds .We dont have a limit right now .
Now , we can not build any more beds ever again .
We have to release all these invaders into country .
The Rhinos wanted to keep the cheap labor coning in too.
The unity party trying to spin this disaster. as a tough compromise l
That a media lie .
They both wanted more invaders and the bed limit gives it to them both.
Its another carp sammich that Trump should not sign
so
they can boast that Trump owns this shut down
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