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Live. Waiting for him to come to the podium in the Rose Garden:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?457270-1/president-trump-delivers-statement-government-shutdown
My bet is another 4-6 weeks of funding, no wall (metal or otherwise, down-payment or otherwise).
Rooters via Twitter calling it a 3 week stop-gap measure.
Is POTUS doing this so he can give the SOTU on Tuesday????
As a furloughed fed knowing I will get paid, I am in heaven and do not want the shutdown to end, ESPECIALLY if we don’t get a wall.
My guess is that he appears to fold on the wall but he has already secured the money to do it with the military and an emergency declaration. I think that’s what he has been working on all this time.
If this is about the bloody Superbowl....
Seems to be delayed perhaps president Trumps gut is telling him not to cave on the wall - I hope so. 3 to 4 weeks is stupid then what repeat this whole pointless exercise again.
I hope he opens it for three weeks with some money for the wall.... and then next week declares an emergency and builds the damn wall..... do it or lose it.... everything
I’m cautiously hoping for the best, but steeling myself for a let-down.
Go big, Mr President.
Drudge claims NO WALL MONEY.
Let’s get ‘er done. Fire Mueller while you’re at it.
BIG mistake to accept a CR.
That’s what’s been going on for 2 years waiting for a wall.
This would just be yet another delay going nowhere.
Shutdown should’ve actually started last October when you think about it. At least would have R congress.
Thanks to inactivity, R lost House. Senate next if this isn’t fixed.
So I hear he’s already going to cave to Nancy Pelosi? Think about that for a minute.
HE’S ALREADY GOING TO CAVE TO NANCY PELOSI AND LET HER HAVE HER WAY.
I’m sickened by this if true.
Can we just get on with the damn thing.
Like I said in another thread, I miss George W’s punctuality.
Just another underhanded method to pay back pay and get those off of Congressmen’s backs. Nothing will be accomplished and the Dems will never cave to make President Trump look like the victor. Standard operating procedure of the uniparty through 2020 election.
President Trump should give Anne Coulter a quick call and discuss his announcement before giving it. She would be a good, very vocal voice of reason to consider. She’s got a bigger platform than most of us, she won’t give him a pass if he folds. Same with Hannity and Rush. They’d be good for advice now at 11th hour before he walks into the Rose Garden.
Watching Harris Faulkner and Martha MacCallum on FNC. They’re whining about “some people can’t live if they miss two paychecks”. I don’t recall that when Obama was shutting down FOREVER steel and coal.
The FAA issue today was probably the final straw. This shutdown really cannot go on. The Rats play to win, and they will.