Posted on 11/20/2020 5:14:10 PM PST by 11th_VA
President Trump and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are headed to a final showdown over his signature border wall, setting the stage for a rematch of a fight two years ago that shuttered the government for 35 days.
The White House is requesting a $2 billion installment to continue building the wall, while Pelosi and House Democrats have countered with no new money for construction.
Democrats have also proposed rescinding earlier wall funding, according to a House Democratic aide.
And to guard against Trump’s workaround to the previous standoff, the House spending bill prohibits the administration from shifting funds from other accounts to pay for the wall.
Aides say congressional leaders and the heads of the Senate and House Appropriations committees will soon negotiate a compromise between the $2 billion request and counteroffer of zero dollars once both chambers settle on the allocation amounts for individual spending bills that will make up the year-end omnibus.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said negotiators are “close” to settling those top-line numbers but declined to comment on what the funding number for the wall is likely to be.
But whatever the agreed-upon amount, many Republicans are predicting Trump is going to put up a fight for more wall funding.
“It’s extremely critical, and I think he’s going to go to the mat on the border wall. And I think a lot of Republicans are going to go with him,” said Ford O’Connell, a GOP strategist.
“The immigration issue is about being pro-worker and pro-jobs, and that is important to the Trump message going forward. And if Republicans don’t put up on this, they’re worried that the base will lose faith in them on one of their issues,” he added...
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I think there is a 60/40 probability Pelosi will be serving as Speaker from a federal supermax cell.
At this point Trump has nothing to lose. It’s like getting into a fist fight with an ugly guy.
Nuke the border and make it a wasteland.
So you shut the government down. However, 60 percent of government employees are listed as essential, so the shutdown is meaningless.
it should be easy enough to provide concrete evidence for the effectiveness of the border wall - drop in BP injuries, increased ability to hire BP agents, drop in illegals, drop in cost of housing and processing illegals, drop in no-pay admissions to local hospitals of illegals, etc. at x cost savings.
Oh yes, the border wall.
It’s after an election, so the topic was sure to come up.
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