Posted on 12/10/2018 4:54:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Democratic leaders are urging President Trump to drop his proposal to spend $5 billion on a border wall and avoid a partial government shutdown, saying the proposal does not have enough votes to pass Congress
“This holiday season, the president knows full well that his wall proposal does not have the votes to pass the House and Senate, and should not be an obstacle to a bipartisan agreement,” Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) said in a joint statement issued before their meeting with the president scheduled for 11:30 am Tuesday.
The leaders said Republicans, not Democrats, would get the blame for the shutdown because Trump is pushing the border wall proposal, which is well in excess of the $1.6 billion Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee agreed to earlier this year.
“Republicans still control the House, the Senate, and the White House, and they have the power to keep government open. Our country cannot afford a Trump Shutdown, especially at this time of economic uncertainty,” they said.
Pelosi and Schumer will urge Trump to accept a year-long stopgap funding measure for the Department of Homeland Security or a long-term stopgap measure for the remaining seven unfinished appropriations bills, according to a senior Democratic aide.
A yearlong stopgap, also known as a continuing resolution, would provide $1.3 billion for border fencing and barriers, the same amount that Congress appropriated for fiscal year 2018.
Republican leaders predict that Trump will reject that offer.
“I’d rather pass all seven,” said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), referring to the seven spending bills his panel has put together at higher funding levels for next year.
It’s now or never.
Time to go to the mat.
$5 billion wall funding or shut it down.
We have only been waiting since 1986!!
The Dems know that popular support for the wall is much higher than they let on.
President Trump needs to keep the issue, and keep it moving forward at extra fast pace.
As for the Dems?
President Trump should give his response in Spanish.
"No"..
Shuck and Jive Chuck tryin’ to see if he can con Big Don into giving up his signature promise.
Be high fivin’ each other if he does.
SHUT IT DOWN PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He needs to hold out for the entire $25 billion.
How did that work for Bush... when he caved on the ‘no more taxes’ pledge?
And us 2 for that matter.
Shut down the government.
Including the entire border with Mexico.
Televise an announcement from the WH with the VP and various other “leaders” on camera quoting the numbers, projected costs to the taxpayers etc, vs 26 billion total cost for the wall, and announce the closing of the entire border coast to coast.
Declare it a National Emergency and deploy National Guard, Marines, etc to known high traffic illegal crossing areas.
Announce “because of the government shutdown over democrats refusal to fund The Border Wall, there can be no immediate resolution to the issue, the border with Mexico is going to be closed for an indeterminate amount of time.”
Publish a list of democrat party contacts for the public to contact to “pursuade” them to fund a complete wall.
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If GHW Bush had been on our side, there would already be a fence.
Bush League Republicans must become extinct before the Republic does.
We don’t need a shutdown republicans can do it in reconciliation.
They just don’t want to have to defend THEIR position under the spotlight of a shutdown.
Certain.
If Trump agrees not to push for the border wall, he can forget about 2020.
Of course they are because they know his supporters won’t like it one bit if he does. Dems are snakes.
As I understand this, the justices refused to hear a case on STATE’S rights to fund or defund things, in part SUPPORTING an Arkansas bill that defunded PP.
Of course the Democratic party wants to stop the wall. They’re anti USA. They’re Soros bought and paid for!
To borrow some famous words
“...whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender
traitor paul ryan should be drop kicked all the way to the spider hole he emerged from.
Should read DIMocRAT losers. They despise America, Free America and Free Americans . Build the wall twice as high just to show these seditious traitor losers what’s up. Pox on them,
They’re going for the old “Read my lips” move they pulled on Bush; and the Just this time only amnesty move they pulled on Reagan. Them RATs been doin’ this manipulating since the pre-civil war years. I just keep praying he stands his ground on the wall and releasing the docs on them as threatened.
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