Posted on 01/25/2019 1:08:05 PM PST by topher
[ Full Title: Pelosi, Schumer speak after Trump announces deal to reopen government - live updates]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are holding a press conference shortly after President Trump announced a deal to reopen the federal government. The House and Senate are expected to vote on a continuing resolution (CR) that will keep the government open for three weeks to negotiate over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and a border wall or barrier. ... After refusing for over a month to sign any government funding bill without money for a wall, Mr. Trump agreed to sign a bill to reopen the government without wall funding. The CR will include $1.3 billion for border security, and is essentially the deal that the GOP-controlled Senate in December before the shutdown began (this resolution would be in effect until Feb. 15, rather than Feb. 8, the date agreed upon in the December deal). The House and Senate will also establish a conference committee to continue bipartisan, bicameral negotiations over border security.
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I think he played them (again).
BOTH have openly stated they would be willing to negotiate ONLY if the Government were opened.
He has given them two weeks to show they are not liars.
One can figure Pelosi isn’t going to budge an inch.
Also she has NO EXCUSE for holding up the SOTU Tuesday, just hope she balks as she will again show what a lying SOB she really is.
If shutdown happens Feb 15 it is on THEM, so no viable reason to cave.
Maybe PDJT is just showing these lying fartz what COMPROMISE is...give a little, take a little.
The LIB def for compromise is
LIB..I Have a car to sell you for 2500 bucks.
I can only comfortable afford 2000, maybe 2200.
LIB...you have 5 min to get the 2500 deal, in 10 minutes the price will be 3000.....
That was some master negotiating there /s
BRAVO!!!!!
If this whole idiotic shutdown/wall drama was political poker,President Trump had a winning hand and turned it into a LOSER! Pathetic. The country is going down in flames and President Trump will go the way of Bush I in 1992.
If this whole idiotic shutdown/wall drama was political poker,President Trump had a winning hand and turned it into a LOSER! Pathetic. The country is going down in flames and President Trump will go the way of Bush I in 1992.
When he backs down let me know..
He already did.. He will never get anything from the Democrats. Not one dollar. They know they can bluff him..
CBS/s use of the word "essentially" will give the libs reason to cheer. However, that usage is entirely inappropriate. This deal is significantly different in that it has a 21 day fuse. That 21 days gives Pelosi et al time to come to their senses.
Pelosi's statement once again clearly discloses her agenda, however; and that, given the obvious, current weakness, is to interfere with or even deny the President's attempt to effectively improve America's national security.
Such an agenda transcends normal politics and should concern every thinking American.
With Trumps experience dealing with Japanese, I have a feeling he is jusT letting her save face after hammering her so many times.
Just getting the meeting started again after the first fight. JMO
Nasty Nan is going to have her big gavel dialed up to 11 tonight! Maybe even put in fresh batteries. It’s Toxic Masculinity time for Nan.
He is not retreating
Is advancing in a different direction
Money for border security is the line they feed you to look like they are serious when all they are doing is funding all the normal stuff like border patrol. Dont buy the spin, there is no money for wall or any other real difference to the status quo.
He lost so far, this is definitely a retreat. But who won? I contend the snakes in the senate, who signaled they were crumbling when a bunch crossed party lines to side with the everything the dems ask for, nothig for wall Bill the other day. Losing this way is better than having his own party openly rebel against him. So a strategic retreat, now lets see what he does in the next three weeks. If nothing, then his four years will have been fun and well see what horror show the dem President in 2021 will put us through.
Trump is going to get drones and the wall. Trump can start building at anytime with Pentagon counter drug money. Add to that the money from the National Emergency. Add to that whatever he can get from the shutdown. Win, Win, Win. Time phased money on top of the contract just given for wall construction. We also need more boats on the Rio Grande.
I guess that'll be so, if he ever backs down...
What you don't see is that Trump just pulled a mean political jujitsu move on the Dems. He stole the high ground.
It don’t help the president to get attacked buy people that claim to be his supporters the only people that belive the president caved is the ones who watch CNN MSMBC and the ABC networks they are working 24 7 to seperate Trump from his base Trump can’t do enough to keep some peoples support he’s delived on at least 75 percent of his promises and he’s working on the rest I’m going to support Mr Trump no matter what I said all a long if he never does one thing he did defeat Hillary and that was enough for me
It is a “read my lips” moment
Of course they are, but that's their job.
Trump actually smoked the Dems. He just captured the high ground.
But, we can find ten billion dollars that’s right, 10 billion dollars as emergency money and send it to Central America just one month ago!?
Took me a while after the speech to process it, but once I did, I realized that it was a brilliant tactical move.
Everyone needs to chill. Trump has got this.
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