Dems say Trump can avert shutdown risk if he relents on wall

AP/Washington Post ^ | 04/24/2017 | Catherine Lucey and Hope Yen 

[Responsibility2nd]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump could avert the risk of a government shutdown next weekend by stepping back from his demand that lawmakers fund his promised border wall with Mexico in a must-pass spending bill, Congress’ two top Democrats said Monday.

“If the president stepped out of it, we could get a budget done by Friday,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday in a conference call with reporters, referring to Democratic and Republican budget negotiators.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., agreed. She said that while Trump had promised during his campaign to build the barrier, “He did not promise that he would take food out of the mouths of babies” and cut programs for seniors, education and the environment to pay for it. She called the wall an “immoral, ineffective, unwise proposal.”

[sargon]

The Wall will never be built, it would take a President with Balls, and Trump is not that man.

Your statement is the epitome of asinine...

[Syncro]

Strange way to get your point across but I’m glad you get it

[Eleutheria5]

Surrender, Dorothy, or else.