Posted on 11/17/2018 10:31:15 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
With Congress still not on board his border wall plans, President Trump said Saturday that its a good time to do a shutdown, suggesting he will refuse to accept any appropriations bills that dont include the $5 billion hes asking for.
He did say he doesnt think one will happen because Democrats will come to their senses on the issue.
And he said hes ready to keep the troops he deployed to the border as long as necessary.
Were talking about border wall, were talking about quite a big sum of money, about $5 billion, he told reporters at the White House before jetting off to California to survey the effort to contain wildfires. This would be a very good time to do a shutdown. I dont think its going to be necessary, because I think the Democrats will come to their senses, and if they dont come to their senses, we will continue to win elections.
For most people in Washington a government shutdown is a sign of failure, but Mr. Trump views it as a weapon to be deployed, and at times has even seemed eager over the possibility.
He said before the election he was cooling shutdown talk because Republicans on Capitol Hill convinced him it was hurting them. But with the election over, he appears emboldened again.
A shutdown now would be less painful than the GOP-orchestrated 16-day shutdown in 2013 because Congress has already approved and Mr. Trump signed five of the 12 annual spending bills into law. covering about 70 percent of discretionary government funding.
There is a Dec. 7 deadline, though, for funding operations at the State, Interior, Homeland Security, Justice and other departments.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Blame Republicans and start primarying anti wall Republican.
Why doesn’t he just make it clear that he won’t comprise on this issue. They need to fully fund the wall, or he should allocate the funds needed from the omnibus bill. I sick of wasting time on this.
So many peanut gallery folks thinking they’re smarter than a self-made billionaire who also defied all the odds and became the best President ever.....become a 300 Club member and make your opinions worth something....
At least the government will be shut down for a while. But even after January, he can still veto and they can’t override.
Can someone p,ease explain to me WHY our Army Corp of Engineers AND SeaBees cant build the wall!!!
The Army Corps of Engineers do not actually ‘build’ anything.
They push paperwork for contractors to perform various projects
like dams, river, port, and harbor dredging, etc.
But they have to be given funding before they can do any of that.
$5 billion??? That’s it?
I thought the MINIMUM total cost was $25 billion. And I thought we were going to get it on time, under budget, and with Mexico paying for it.
And I’m beginning to believe we will get no wall
Just do it. And please find a way to stop the communism in Cartelfornia.
Yes, there is Democrat vote fraud.
You have offered no evidence that something is being done about it, because there isn't any.
I repeat what I posted earlier:
There isn't going to be a SINGLE Democrat refused a seat in the House. Nor will there be a single law passed "regarding mandatory minimum standards for a state-run election for any federal office."
How do I know this? Because there isn't a shred of evidence for what you assert, and there would be if it were remotely true. It isn't.
You are delusional.
It's a really happy delusion, but a delusion it is.
You have offered no evidence that something is being done about it, because there isn’t any.
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Open your eyes.... before the new year there will be fireworks... Do you really think Trump changed responsibility for uncovering and prosecuting vote fraud on a whim to a dept. that he better controls? Did Brenda Snipes resign because she wants to spend more time with family? Do you think the EO was a meaningless joke? FL theft averted,, GA theft averted, CA theft uncovered.. AZ theft evidence being gathered..
Whatever you say, Carnac.
LATimes doesn’t want to look bad , starts running vote fraud in Cali stories.. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-skid-row-voter-fraud-20181120-story.html
Elections have been STOLEN in CA. for decades, NOT ONE PERSON does a DAMN THING about it!!! Now it is to late the entire state government has been taken over by Dems and NOW there are not even Congress critters left on our side!!! I hope that by doing NOTHING these Congress critters enjoy looking for new employment this state is DONE there is NO WAY to ever get it back to what it once was NO POSSIBLE WAY!!!
If Justice lost it’s funding so would Mueller right? Democrats shutting down the investigation over the border wall? Please do it!
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