Posted on 09/08/2017 11:43:35 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
WASHINGTON Progressive House members promised Friday afternoon that Democrats will support a government shutdown and not increasing the debt ceiling if there is not a clean vote on the Dream Act by Dec. 15.
In an emotional press conference with progressive and immigrant activists, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said Democratic House leaders have told him they will support stopping the government to protect 800,000 people whose status has been in limbo since the Trump administration announced it will suspend Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in six months.
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Heck, from what I understand, most of them aren't even "kids". I thought I read somewhere that the average age of this clump of illegal aliens is in the low- to mid-20s.
Do it! Just don’t pay the employees when they return to “work”. Usually the do so...so it is a paid vacay.
I don’t understand how why the republicans don’t have enough votes to fund the government given their majorities. Would the country go for every single democrat shutting it down and that’s supposed to hurt Trump?
The Republicans don’t have a “working” majority.
There’s too many moderates that are from safe states that would vote with Dems on major conservative legislation. Plus the fact that the leadership is dancing to the Chamber of Commerce tune...and the modern CoC is much more in sync with liberal interests.
If the ‘Rats could shut down the government they wouldn’t.
Then again, if they could shut down the government and did, the media would blame president Trump.
5.56mm
Why not just use the same numbers as the last Obama budget?
Trump knows how to save a dollar and showed so in the first 6 months? Would the left turn down a duplicate of which they just recently approved of?
What happen to the Deal ?
Enemies of America
Oh, please don’t throw me in that briar patch!
Well I’d say that wraps up the Latino prison gang vote.
These POS DACArs are getting bold. I hope Trump kicks them all out.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1696784
That was the whole point of throwing the DACA policy back upon the Congress.
The Dreamers program was NEVER established by legislation, and in fact, had been voted down several times before the Former Occupant of the White Hut just unilaterally imposed it.
In no form shall the provisions of the DACA policy, as it now stands, ever survive a pass through the House and Senate by such a margin as to be able to override a Presidential veto, and it it does, then things are at a worse pass than ever I imagined.
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^^THIS^^
And now there is division and chaos in the D ranks!
“He will not divide us!”
Wanna bet? Oh, that Trump! He’s such a dummy!/s
What happen to the Deal ?
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It was bait and the progs took it and ran. They’re gonna hear from Chuck and Nancy, I tell ya!
An so it begins ...
Good, shut it down.
Y’all threaten government shut downs at every turn and it’s getting old. Okey dokey. Fine by me. Shut it down. Shut it all down. Stop all gov. paychecks including theirs. Stop all gov. payouts for everything. No emergency funds. No welfare or Soc. Sec. checks. No obamacare. Send park rangers home and leave evacuees on their own. Send home those monitoring levees and whatever disaster that’s following Irma. Send home the military. Turn off every light, phone and computer on The Hill. Make it a complete shut down. Make sure to inform fat boy in NK with the last email out.
Come on. I double dog dare you.
I’m waiting.
Still waiting.
Either do it or shut up and get on with your job.
Trump would NOT have to close down popular tourist attractions like the Washington Monument or the National Parks, for example.
Obama did that but not because he HAD to close our National Parks and Monuments. Obama could've kept them open ... however for purely political motives (i.e., blaming Republicans) he tried to whip up public anger over the so-called shut-down.
Remember how Obama even tried to block tourists from visiting Mt Vernon? But it turned out Mt Vernon is not run by the National Park Service, but by a private organization (the Mt Vernon Ladies Association, I believe). So Mt Vernon remained open for visitors.
One criteria of DACA:
Were Under Age 31 on June 15, 2012 (i.e., born on June 16, 1981 or after)
If the gov’t. shuts down,maybe they could shut down Gutierrez’s paycheck at the same time. Shut it down!
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