Uh, I believe he already came down to 5 billion from a much higher figure.
In the video Mulvaney says they await a counter offer to the 5 billion and might consider a number between that and 1.5 that dems have offered.
By a show of hands what would a Trump/Conservative victory number look like? Whatever would piss off the dem base the most would work for me. That’s usually an indicator.
But would freepers here like seeing an agreement of around 3 billion for now? We know it’s just the start of the 25 for full wall funding.
He should say, “Well, if we are going to have a shutdown anyway then I’m not going to settle for $5 billion. We are not going to do this again next year. The number is now $25 billion. “
And how many past budgets, within the past year, was it dropped. Three. No, Trump has already compromised.
Reportedly Kushner, Mulvaney and Pence offered the $1.6B figure to stave off the shutdown—but the House GOP forced them to stick to $5B.