Posted on 12/22/2018 3:54:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Calling the partial government shutdown the result of a "two-week tantrum" by President Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the funds for the border wall the president wants will never pass the Senate.
"If you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall, plain and simple," the New York Democrat said in his remarks on the Senate floor. The Senate opened at noon Saturday for a rare session, just days before Christmas.
His Saturday comments echoed those he made Friday to Vice President Mike Pence, one of the administration's negotiators.
Trump and Senate leaders failed to come to an agreement this week that would garner the necessary 60 votes in the Republican-controlled Senate. Negotiations have stalled over $5.8 billion in funding for a border wall, which passed in the House's version of the spending bill Thursday.
"Everyone knew yesterday, long before the House vote, that the president's wall lacked 60 votes in the Senate. It has proven to lack even 50 votes. It will never pass the Senate. Not today, not next week, not next year," Schumer said.
Calling the wall expensive and ineffective, Schumer said the majority of Americans do not support its construction.
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IGGZACTLY !!!
Who needs them? NOBODY !
“I’ll run over every anarchist that steps in front of ma’ car!”
Dueling. Hamilton and Burr.
Trump should tweet out something to the effect that since Chuck and Nancy shutdown the government (he didn’t veto anything) there’s going to be a cost for them to get it back open. The price this week is $5 billion. After next week it will be $7 billion. If they wait until next year, it will be $10 billion.
We should start a campaign: start mailing bricks to him.
OMG I love this idea, LOL BRILLIANT!!!
How can we allow the resistance to suffer the consequences of their actions and not allow them to destroy or harm everyone else in the process?
The Republican Party will never nominate Donald Trump fo president.
We shall see.
Come on, you KNOW she would be whipping HIM. And he would be loving it.
We absolutely have use or lose. I never carry over too much so I don’t know what it is. I’m tempted to say the max carry over is 130 hours.
I could hold out forever; I’m frugal and my wife has a good job.
The average federal bum?
Who knows.
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