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Trump may drop request for border wall funding in spending bill
American Thinker ^ | 04/25/2017 | Rick Moran

Posted on 04/25/2017 7:12:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Facing bi-partisan opposition to including funds to build a wall along the US southern border in the spending bill to keep the government operating past this weekend, President Trump told a group of conservative media representatives that he may drop his insistence for the wall funding if it will help pass the legislation.

Bloomberg:

"On funding the border wall, Trump said he could get it this week or the administration could come back to it in September," Trey Yingst, a White House correspondent for One America News, reported in a tweet. A White House official who asked for anonymity confirmed what Trump said during the private meeting.

Democrats, whose votes will be needed to help pass the spending plan, hope he’ll blink to avoid an embarrassing milestone for a new president trying to prove he can govern. A partial shutdown would start on Saturday, Trump’s 100th day in office.

"The President’s comments this evening are welcome news given the bipartisan opposition to the wall, and the obstacle it has been to the continuing bipartisan negotiations in the appropriations committees," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. "It’s time for Congress to act to make it clear that government will remain open for the American people."

Democrats are united in their opposition to including any funding for a border wall in the bill. They are also opposing a measure that would cut off funding to Planned Parenthood. Republicans will need at least some Democrats to vote for the funding bill in order to avoid a government shut down since some House conservatives are balking at the price tag.

“I wouldn’t risk a trillion-dollar funding bill for a $3 billion wall,”


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: borderwall; congress; spending
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Hold a 4th of July — Independence Day Funding Raising Telethon — With live testimony of victims of illegal immigrant violence, human trafficking, prostitution, and failed cities.

Create a “Build the Wall Fund” and collect donations and then the left will see just how serious at least 100 million Americans are about building the wall.


21 posted on 04/25/2017 7:25:19 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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To: RummyChick

https://military.id.me/news/va-unable-to-get-400k-back-from-executives-it-cant-fire/


22 posted on 04/25/2017 7:26:05 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: Grampa Dave

“Don’t let the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the WALL. It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc.”

Didn’t you hear?

“Real conservatives” trust the AP more than Trump’s Twitter.


23 posted on 04/25/2017 7:26:13 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: TexasFreeper2009

That’s what I would do: just use eminent domain to secure a government-owned strip all along the border, then send all our troops there for training.

And for every acre of land we have to do to establish this, we should free up 100 acres of the land that Obama grabbed for the feds.

We could do the same along the Canadian border for our northern training if it proves needed.


24 posted on 04/25/2017 7:28:11 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Shut the government down. Please.

We are always talking about “limited government”. During a so-called “shutdown” we get to prove that much of what government does, we don’t need. When GOP panics at the thought of a shutdown, they merely prove that they don’t believe it themselves.

I’ve noticed in the past that when we have a long shutdown, like during the Gingrich years, people just start to see that nothing bad happens. The bi-partisan panic you see in congress isn’t that something bad will happen, its that people might see that nothing bad happens at all. Most of what government does, we don’t need.


25 posted on 04/25/2017 7:28:51 AM PDT by marron
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To: VanDeKoik

Yep...they’re coming across similar to the Demorats whining.....I guess we have some snowflakes too.... It’s one thing to hold Trump accountable..it’s another to expect him to do so in their own good time...given the climate he stepped into and the opposition and obstruction from the elites on both sides.....they have forgotten that it’s a beautiful day in America every day we wake and know that Trump is in office!


26 posted on 04/25/2017 7:29:05 AM PDT by caww
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To: RummyChick

Oh and the stealer got her job back
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/02/01/judge-overturns-demotion-of-second-va-official-accused-job-scam.html

Can’t find anything on if they have been fired under Trump Administration.

This is just a perfect example of how you can’t run it like a business.


27 posted on 04/25/2017 7:29:36 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: fwdude
Trump tweeted this morning" Don't let the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the WALL. It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc.
28 posted on 04/25/2017 7:29:42 AM PDT by kabar
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To: SeekAndFind

$700 million was already approved... where did it go?

And Oh yeah.. the $4 Trillion in ‘stimulus’ where did all that go too?


29 posted on 04/25/2017 7:30:39 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE REPEAL THAT IS WORSE THAN KEEPING IT ONE MORE DAY***)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Just chill... Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago Don't let the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the WALL. It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc. I refer you to my tagline. Why do people swallow everything the media trolls them with?
30 posted on 04/25/2017 7:31:26 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: SeekAndFind
NeverTrumper Fake News, the delight of the NeverTrumper FR brigade.

Trump just tweeted:

Don't let the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the WALL. It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc

31 posted on 04/25/2017 7:31:35 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: caww

Exactly. Thank you!!


32 posted on 04/25/2017 7:33:45 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: SeekAndFind

Rick Moron. Not surprising coming from a guy associated with an outfit named ‘The Right Wing Nuthouse’ which sponsors ‘The RINO Hour of Power.’

http://rightwingnuthouse.com/

If it doesn’t come from President Trump, it’s fake news.


33 posted on 04/25/2017 7:36:00 AM PDT by tumblindice
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To: SeekAndFind

If true, wrong decision.


34 posted on 04/25/2017 7:37:13 AM PDT by mulligan
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To: bigbob

I am fine.

And I think Trump will build the wall.

BUT

I was just stating what would happen if he didn’t.


35 posted on 04/25/2017 7:39:30 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: SeekAndFind

My understanding is that it will be out of the stopgap bill that funds government one or two weeks so they can negotiate the final bill but wall funding will be in the final bill or there will be a shutdown.

Big media mixes the bills to discourage Trump supporters. Don’t trust Big Media.


36 posted on 04/25/2017 7:41:13 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Where’s the money already appropriated?


37 posted on 04/25/2017 7:42:27 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: SeekAndFind

None of us can be surprised at this.

What other options did we have? Vote for Cankles?


38 posted on 04/25/2017 7:45:09 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas
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To: VanDeKoik

Damn it! He needs to insist on this funding of the wall or SHUT DOWN THE DAMN GOVERNMENT!!!

And where is our Obamacare repeal ‘ON DAY ONE?!’


39 posted on 04/25/2017 7:46:15 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: caww
Trump championed congress's 'Obamacare 2.0' bill. He could have, and should have, threatened to veto anything but a substantial repeal. But he didn't.
40 posted on 04/25/2017 7:47:51 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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