Posted on 03/13/2017 10:33:10 AM PDT by ColdOne
Senate Democrats said Monday that they will block any spending bill that includes money for President Trump’s border wall, even if it leads to a government shutdown, saying it’s up to Republicans to resist touchy issues in the looming spending debate.
In a letter led by Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, top Democrats also said they will insist that bills allow Planned Parenthood to collect taxpayer money.
But though Democrats are in the minority and would have to filibuster to block the bills, they insisted it’s Republicans who will be blamed for a government shutdown.
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I thought government shutdown was so awful!
Aren’t they afraid they will “be blamed for it”
Bring it. If the Dems want to make a stand against a wall and for Planned Parenthood Funding over veterans, senior citizens, and others, then let’s have that fight.
I’m all for a government shutdown.
We need border cams in many places to show the idiot dems, and more importantly, the American people, the quality of the illegal border crossers.
Progressive/communists want to shut the government down to protect illegal lawbreakers bring it on.
Since they are loyal to Mexico.
And not loyal to the USA.
Bring it. If the Dems want to make a stand against a wall and for Planned Parenthood Funding over veterans, senior citizens, and others, then let’s have that fight.
Good luck with that. McConnell and Ryan only fight to exempt themselves from Obamacare. I’m sure they’re planning the surrender already.
Good! They can go on the record of being AGAINST securing our borders!!!
I know you baited me into this. I'm gonna bite anyway....
You didn't just crawl out of a cave. The democrats first brag about shutting down the government and then they blame Republicans for shutting down the government. It's ok to shut down the government for an activist cause, just not for a fiscally responsible cause.
What filibuster?
I thought it was dead. That's what Harry Reid told me. Would he lie?
President Trump should publicly announce that he doesn’t believe in payment for not working. He should say that federal workers “shut out” because of the ‘RATs’ government shutdown need to apply for unemployment benefits as he will veto any law that would later retroactively pay the federal employees for time they’re not working.
Call their bluff and watch the ‘RATS fold like cheap suits.
Repub government shutdown - BAD!
Dem government shutdown (when can't be blamed on Repubs) - GOOD!
I’m with ya! Shut it down, go home and stay there!
Wouldn’t it be nice if the Republicans had acted in a similar manner...
On this I’m sure that the MSM will tell the RATS they are hurting women and minorities. /sar
The Ctrl-Left is threatening to temporarily shut down nonessential parts of FedGov?
Go for it. Decent people (including many who posted here before I did) are hoping President Trump will permanently shut down nonessential parts of FedGov.
As usual.
Continuing Appropriations Resolution -
defund Obamacare there (which we tried to do with 2014 resolution) and insert Wall in place of it. We now got the muscle for it and it buys time to get ducks in a row for repealing Obamacare.
doable ?
Same Crappy, Hollow Threat, but against a new team. Shut it down and we can then decide if and how much needs to ever be resurrected. We could do without government unions and civil service. America would be a grateful beneficiary.
When someone is deltaing into the deck you normally expect them to pull up at some point. Not so with the Dems.
Pray America woke
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