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Mitch McConnell Rejects Trump Call for ‘Nuclear Option’ to Fund the Wall
Breitbart ^ | 21 Dec 2018 | by Sean Moran

Posted on 12/21/2018 10:07:28 AM PST by Jim Robinson

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) rejected President Donald Trump’s call to partially fund the border wall with a simple majority vote on Friday, suggesting not enough Senate Republicans support the measure.

President Trump called on McConnell to use the “nuclear option,” or switch to a simple majority vote in the Senate, to pass the continuing resolution (CR) that would partially fund the border wall...

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 115th; aliens; borderwallfunding; cheaplaborlobby; cr; globalist; gope; kentucky; leadermcconnell; mcconnell; mitchmcconnell; nuclearoption; obstructionistdems; partialfunding; reject; rino; senate; wall
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To: Jim Robinson
Yeah I think that is the plan.

Let another 10 million or so across to add to the 40 mil then stop all remittance.

Face it Brother Robinson, the government does NOT want to secure the border and will be up to people like myself who has been down there for 12+ years.

We need millions of We the People on the border if we want something done. But alas, most people are just hot air and will not pony up for the fight.

Even Oath Keepers is using the "new" call to arms to fatten their war chest. The first call to arms never swung the bat.

It is all smoke and mirrors.

101 posted on 12/21/2018 10:56:54 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Put the wall funding item in the bill.

Vote on the bill.

Es sencillo.


102 posted on 12/21/2018 10:57:10 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: jyo19
If the Dems could do it to pass Obamacare why can’t we do it to pass the wall?

Because the dems wanted obumber care and would have stood behind the one even if they disagreed. The gopE does not want the wall and most hate Trump because he says what he means and is not one of them.
103 posted on 12/21/2018 10:57:44 AM PST by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: deks

that sounds pretty good, unless i am missing something...(?)

https://twitter.com/senatemajldr


104 posted on 12/21/2018 10:57:55 AM PST by SteveH
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To: conservative98

Flake voted no. So glad he’s gone.


105 posted on 12/21/2018 11:02:42 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Jim Robinson

Trump needs to put the 5 billion in the context of the average Americans money they can understand.

Like, if you had $100, I’m asking for 5 cents to fulfill a promise that got me elected.

(I’m not sure of the numbers)


106 posted on 12/21/2018 11:04:05 AM PST by No Socialist
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To: conservative98

Do they have to get to 60 votes and need democrats?


107 posted on 12/21/2018 11:04:50 AM PST by No Socialist
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To: No Socialist

So the Dems are going to have a partial shut down until the next Congress is seated?


108 posted on 12/21/2018 11:05:23 AM PST by marajade
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To: marajade

The next congress can’t be seated until this one is adjourned... which it can’t do without passing a continuing resolution to fund the government.


109 posted on 12/21/2018 11:09:55 AM PST by jyo19
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To: Amendment10

Oh gosh Mitch is having a good time spewing lies that he supports the wall

Going on and on to make himself look good but is actually secretly happy he is helping spoil the chances of getting wall funding.


110 posted on 12/21/2018 11:13:27 AM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Jim Robinson

“McConnell says he supports bill with border money after meeting with Trump”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-leans-on-mcconnell-to-pass-spending-bill-with-border-funding-in-senate/2018/12/21/31bb453a-0517-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html

I didn’t read the article because of the WP article limit.


111 posted on 12/21/2018 11:14:00 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: jyo19

What needs to happen is two more republican senators than they have now needs to flip to a yes vote on voting on this under budget rules (the nuclear option) so they only need 51 votes to pass it. Right now we don’t have supposed republicans Flake, Kyl, Alexander and Hatch on our side because of “civility” or some other such nonsense after they just sat and watched the dems do the same thing to pass Obamacare. If some combination of Kyl, Hatch or Alexander (Flake is a democrat and a lost cause) can be convinced to flip to a yes the nuclear option they have the votes to pass the wall right now.


112 posted on 12/21/2018 11:14:08 AM PST by jyo19
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To: jyo19

The next congress can’t be seated until this one is adjourned... which it can’t do without passing a continuing resolution to fund the government.

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So if their is a stalemate we keep the same house and senate we have now?


113 posted on 12/21/2018 11:18:11 AM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: central_va

Flip him over maybe?


114 posted on 12/21/2018 11:18:27 AM PST by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: Jim Robinson
DITCH MITCH!!!!!

115 posted on 12/21/2018 11:20:15 AM PST by Savage Beast (The Trump Revolution is the Resistance to the forces of Decadence in America.)
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To: Jim Robinson

There used to be a time when Senate leaders would take the problem members of their party into the cloak room and read them the riot act, threatened them, and did whatever needed to be done to ensure they voted the right way. I doubt anything like that goes on any more, but it should. Flake, Corker, and the rest of the RINOS should have been dealt with like that.


116 posted on 12/21/2018 11:21:35 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: No Socialist
Trump needs to put the 5 billion in the context of the average Americans money they can understand.Like, if you had $100, I’m asking for 5 cents to fulfill a promise that got me elected. (I’m not sure of the numbers)

I believe the entire budget for 2019 is $4.4 trillion.

So he's asking for a nickle when you have $44 in your pocket.

Or asking for five bucks when you have $4,400 in your sock drawer.

117 posted on 12/21/2018 11:22:28 AM PST by OA5599
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To: heshtesh
👍🏼
118 posted on 12/21/2018 11:23:21 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: TADSLOS

Agree.


119 posted on 12/21/2018 11:23:51 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Jim Robinson

120 posted on 12/21/2018 11:24:50 AM PST by yoe (Are the eliets playing hard ball with our freedoms and our Constitution?)
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