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Schumer: Offer on border wall is 'off the table'
The Hill ^ | 23/1/18 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 01/24/2018 10:45:52 AM PST by Eleutheria5

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) confirmed on Tuesday that he has withdrawn his offer to discuss funding for the U.S.-Mexico border wall as part of a deal with President Trump.   "We're going to have to start on a new basis and the wall offer is off the table," Schumer told reporters, saying that the offer was initially "part of a package."   The reversal comes after Schumer said he offered to discuss the wall — a key campaign pledge of Trump's — during a White House meeting on Friday.   "During the meeting, in exchange for strong [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)] protections, I reluctantly put the border wall on the table for the discussion. Even that was not enough to entice the president to finish the deal," Schumer said from the Senate floor early Saturday.    But Schumer said that the president, while initially seeming interested, refused the agreement. 

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TOPICS: Government; Mexico; Philosophy; US: Arizona; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arizona; buildthefence; california; chainimmigration; chuckschumer; daca; dreamact; dreamers; newmexico; newyork; schumer; shutdown; texas; upchuckschumer; wall
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To: Eleutheria5

Bug. And the Donald is our Uncle Buck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeZ6e3nhHQk


21 posted on 01/24/2018 10:52:48 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Eleutheria5

He said that to get the left idiots off his lawn.


22 posted on 01/24/2018 10:52:49 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Oh, yeah. And nuke the filibuster rule.


23 posted on 01/24/2018 10:52:57 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Eleutheria5

It was never offered.


24 posted on 01/24/2018 10:53:33 AM PST by Brilliant
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If the Border Wall is off the table then NO DACA!!!




25 posted on 01/24/2018 10:53:57 AM PST by KavMan
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To: Eleutheria5

Like it was ever really there. Does he think we’re stupid?


26 posted on 01/24/2018 10:55:00 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: fella
It never was on the table.

One account says that in exchange for legalization of 800,000 DACA illegal aliens yoofs, that Chuckie Schumer offered authorization to build XXX miles of the Trump Wall but refused to say it would be funded. IOW a bait and switch.

27 posted on 01/24/2018 10:55:09 AM PST by dennisw (The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
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To: Eleutheria5

There never was an offer to pay.

There was an offer of Authorization of a few million. Authorization doesn’t mean funded. It’s a promise to fund in the future. It’s like ‘budgeting’ for a future payment, but not actually paying.

I bet he’s horrible at poker.


28 posted on 01/24/2018 10:55:45 AM PST by Vic S
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To: Eleutheria5

When McConnell gave Schumer Daca- to reopen the government by a free standing vote after February 8 thus removing all republican leverage for the wall— Schumer took his offer back. What do you expect?


29 posted on 01/24/2018 10:55:48 AM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: Eleutheria5

What did Einstein say?-)


30 posted on 01/24/2018 10:56:44 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: \/\/ayne

2 election cycles of Americans electing American Senators instead of Amnesty Senators for US to get control of the Senate.

We have 3 solidly on our side, Cotton, Grassley, Perdue.
Paul, Cruz, Lee maybe?

We need a LOT more.


31 posted on 01/24/2018 10:56:52 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Eleutheria5

Nuclear option. Cut social programs, increase defense, pay for wall, kill DACA.


32 posted on 01/24/2018 10:56:53 AM PST by LambSlave
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To: Jim Robinson

+1

Fastest way to end the upcoming stalemate.


33 posted on 01/24/2018 10:58:03 AM PST by Kahuna
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To: Eleutheria5

And HE called Trump negotiations ‘Jello’?....................


34 posted on 01/24/2018 10:58:17 AM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: Eleutheria5

The “offer” was bogus.

Can’t wait for the next CR negotiation. Shut it down, Dems!


35 posted on 01/24/2018 10:58:25 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Chuck needs to have one of his aides read him “The Art of the Deal” before he does or says anything else. He’s not battling Rubio, McCain, and Graham any more and he is way out of his league.


36 posted on 01/24/2018 10:59:34 AM PST by LostPassword
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To: Eleutheria5

So DACA is off the table too. Works for me.


37 posted on 01/24/2018 10:59:42 AM PST by kaehurowing
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It was never on the table, dick.


38 posted on 01/24/2018 10:59:52 AM PST by DoughtyOne (01/22/18 DJIA close 26,214.60 46.546% > open on 11/07/16 We're 617.82 from 50% increase under Trump.)
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To: Vic S

Love watching Schmucky stepping on his own d1ck...What a bufoon


39 posted on 01/24/2018 11:00:09 AM PST by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: Eleutheria5

Hey Chuck-U, keep DACA “off the table” until the 2020 election. American voters will re-examine your party’s attempt to burden us with lawbreaking criminals (70% over the age of 21) and unending tax payments to fund your illegal alien entitlement folly.


40 posted on 01/24/2018 11:00:27 AM PST by MamaDearest
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