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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“It will never pass the Senate. Not today, not next week, not next year,” Schumer said. “
Talk about a temper tantrum.
Jeez.
Chucky, The President and I want a wall for Christmas. New Year’s will work too.
Schumer is, of course, absolutely correct.
This has become a line in the sand for the large globalist majority in Congress, and they will never give in.
It’s time to bring that back into vogue
I would like to think McConnell would do the right thing, but he had two years to do a lot of right things and took a pass.
He and Ryan made complete fools out of themselves, and revealed how deep the treachery goes within our own party.
That works for me. Let's shut down the government for till the 2020 elections and take it to the people. On the one side we have border security, on the other side we have open borders with mass importation of illegal drugs, including opioids, drug traffickers, human traffickers and all kinds of undesirables. Let's see who wins.
Well chuck that means you can’t do anymore damage
the nation is experiencing schumers up it’s spine
What Schumer is really saying: Dear GOP, don’t stop us in bringing in as many illegal aliens as possible, we need the votes..let them in and we can control the country FOREVER
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Trump has flaws galore, but I don’t believe he will EVER back down to such a public challenge as this.
I think Chuckie has miscalculated here.
Then none of their items should ever pass.
No better hill to die on.
Given the current makeup of the stupid party hanging around in DC, he might be right.
Asylum seekers waiting in Tijuana blindsided by U.S.-Mexico agreement
A couple of hours after the Trump administration announced a new agreement with Mexico that will send asylum seekers back south after they ask the U.S. for protection, migrants and Mexican federal immigration officials in Tijuana were equally surprised by the news. In El Chaparral plaza, David Enamorado, 32, stood with people signing up for a place in line among the backlog of asylum seekers that has ballooned under the Trump administration’s policies. He read aloud articles explaining the change to those under the tent from his phone. “They can’t do that, can they?” a man seated under the tent asked.
Many in the group, which is in charge of a notebook that maintains the list of whose turn is next to begin asylum processing in the U.S., were anticipating getting the opportunity to enter sometime over the weekend.Tijuana has the largest group of waiting asylum seekers and the longest wait anywhere along the border. About 4,500 are currently in line. San Diego immigration attorneys said the announcement left them with more questions than answers. They wondered if the responsibility would fall to border courts, and the attorneys working in them, to represent all asylum seekers who try to cross.
A Mexican immigration official responsible for communicating between the group responsible for the notebook and U.S. officials at the port of entry said even he hadn’t heard about the change. Enamorado, who fled his native Honduras with his wife and three young children well before the recent caravan, said it felt like Trump had gotten his wall. “It’s not a physical wall, but it’s there,” he said. “It’s a sad day for us.”
José Maria García Lara, director of Movimiento Juventud 2000, a shelter in Tijuana’s Zona Norte, said he was already worried about funding under the new Mexican administration. “This is going to cause problems for all the shelters in Baja, California,” García Lara said. “We’re going to have more problems than we already have.” Eduardo Solorzano, 26, who came with the caravan, said the change would be good for someone like him. He’d heard that under the old process, he was likely to be locked up for months when he crossed into the U.S. to ask for asylum. “For me, it’s good to have the opportunity to work and to be free,” Solorzano said.
SOURCE: San Diego Tribune
There are so many things Trump can do. Refuse to approve Democrat programs. Start a crackdown on illegals employers.
The most important hill since Calvary...
Should have done that a VERY long time ago. But I’ll take it now. An oval office address in DEFINITELY in order.
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