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Senate GOP to Back Trump on Border Wall, Risking Shutdown Fight
AG Web ^ | Oct 17, 2017

Posted on 10/17/2017 7:30:51 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Senate Republicans have drafted a Homeland Security spending bill that includes the full $1.6 billion President Donald Trump wants for a wall at the Mexican border, increasing the chances of a shutdown fight before current government funding runs out Dec. 8.

Bill author Senator John Boozman of Arkansas told reporters Tuesday the border wall funds would be resolved in a giant trillion-dollar spending bill in December, along with the issue of whether to continue work permits for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, known as Dreamers.

"That will be part of the negotiations," he said. "I think at the end of the day, the president is going in insist that the border funding be there."

Boozman said the spending bill would direct construction to the areas on the border where the most human trafficking occurs. A wall along the entire border would be debated later, he said.

Democrats last week called the year-end spending bill a chance to restore Obamacare insurance subsidies, and they’ve also discussed using it to protect Dreamers from deportation. Because Senate Democrats have the power to filibuster government funding bills, the disputes over immigration, the border wall and Obamacare make the possibility of a shutdown fight very real.

The Homeland Security spending bill was set to be voted on in committee this week, though that has been postponed because of the illness of Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran of Mississippi.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; budget; trump; wall; winning
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1 posted on 10/17/2017 7:30:51 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

This doesn’t start with PRyno?


2 posted on 10/17/2017 7:35:01 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: 11th_VA

Maybe we should tell them they won the Senate and make the rules now.


3 posted on 10/17/2017 7:35:37 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ...)
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To: 11th_VA

51 votes...just do it. Drive the democrats into the dirt. They wouldn’t think twice about doing it to us like they did with Obamacare.


4 posted on 10/17/2017 7:35:41 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Sasparilla

Just do it - totally agree...


5 posted on 10/17/2017 7:36:55 PM PDT by 11th_VA (Kudos to President Trump for denouncing ALL violence)
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To: 11th_VA

Don’t agree to a penny for bailout of Obamacare insurance companies unless the ‘RATS (and RINOs such as Lamar Alexander) agree, and PASS, substantial funding of the border wall. Stop being suckers!


6 posted on 10/17/2017 7:37:11 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY.)
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To: 11th_VA

I don’t recall Obama’s agenda being stopped dead in its tracks because of a GOP filibuster...


7 posted on 10/17/2017 7:37:12 PM PDT by daler
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To: 11th_VA

This should get VERY INTERESTING.

For the Democrats, they are HELL-BENT on preventing the Wall, not because the wall will help control Illegal Immigration, but because their entire 2018 strategy for Congress (and 2020 at all levels) absolutely depends on Democrats (along with NeverTrumpers) being able to tell us conservatives that “TRUMP LIED TO YOU” regarding the border wall (...and therefore vote Democrat, since Trump is a phony, or don’t bother voting, either way).

And the Democrats WILL SHUTDOWN the government to prevent Trump’s victory here (and they do not give a shit about the Dreamers, not one bit...privately I suspect many of them are sick of the their attitude and would also like them gone). That is the ONE ISSUE they will die for.

So the REAL QUESTION is how far they’ll go with the shutdown and whether Trump and the Republicans will be able to frame it correctly, which goes like this:

“The reason your precious government is shutdown is to prevent Trump from building a wall to stop Illegal Immigration.”

To us, it seems like a NO-BRAINER VICTORY for our side, but to our neutered bunch in Congress, they likely don’t think they can win here and are shaking in their pants.


8 posted on 10/17/2017 7:45:12 PM PDT by BobL
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To: 11th_VA

Shut her down. My happiness will abound.


9 posted on 10/17/2017 7:46:39 PM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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To: 11th_VA

Just how does a the minority party shutdown the government? Somebody walk me through that.


10 posted on 10/17/2017 7:48:23 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Sasparilla

“like they did with Obamacare”

They got 60 votes for Obamacare.


11 posted on 10/17/2017 7:49:49 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: BobL

They should let the Democrats shut down the US government, of, by and for the citizens, to side with fraudulently documented foreigners.


12 posted on 10/17/2017 7:50:31 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 11th_VA

Trump has (remarkable) political instincts.

I think he will take this to the mat, and I think he will drag the GOP along with him, though there are (far) too many in the GOP who are sold-out globalists, who really root for China.

(as do many in the Democratic party, as well)

Trump has been VERY good with his political judgement thus far. I think he is maybe heading toward true greatness.

He understands the importance of the wall.

I think he does anyway. I sure hope he does.


13 posted on 10/17/2017 7:55:54 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

McCain will switch to vote with dems and smirk.


14 posted on 10/17/2017 7:56:05 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: 11th_VA

F$&king sad. A very basic sovereignty issue has become political football


15 posted on 10/17/2017 8:08:35 PM PDT by Lee25
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To: Mariner

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/111-2009/s396
Not a single RINO voted for it.
But before we get all misty, it’s because they knew the `rats had the votes. The Repugnant squishes could tell the folks back home they done good.
And for seven years they moaned about how they wished they could repeal it, but when the rubber hit the road, they punked.
Kill the GOP-e next year. What good are they?
No deals. A wall, all the way from San Diego to Harlingen. No more DACAns. No more tax dollars down the Obamacare rathole. Permanent furloughs for the “non-essential”.
Let it burn.


16 posted on 10/17/2017 8:19:38 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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17 posted on 10/17/2017 8:34:10 PM PDT by libh8er
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So Amnesty is getting Buried in the Bill To Hide it from Us ! Giving Amnesty to millions of New Democrats .

Is Trump and the GOP ‘are stupid .

millions of New Democrats will turn FL and TX Blue forever .

We need a new party !

18 posted on 10/17/2017 8:38:22 PM PDT by ncalburt (l)
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To: daler

There was that one time Cruz shut down the government...

Ahhh the good old days.


20 posted on 10/17/2017 9:03:20 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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