Posted on 04/24/2017 9:19:46 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump could avert the risk of a government shutdown next weekend by stepping back from his demand that lawmakers fund his promised border wall with Mexico in a must-pass spending bill, Congress’ two top Democrats said Monday.
“If the president stepped out of it, we could get a budget done by Friday,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday in a conference call with reporters, referring to Democratic and Republican budget negotiators.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., agreed. She said that while Trump had promised during his campaign to build the barrier, “He did not promise that he would take food out of the mouths of babies” and cut programs for seniors, education and the environment to pay for it. She called the wall an “immoral, ineffective, unwise proposal.”
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Truly deranged.
Translation “we are holding the government hostage and will shut it down if you don’t do everything we say as if we had not LOST”
Nice try, douchebags.
Shut it down!
CC
Bring on the shutdown.
Trump will cut everything dear to Chuckie and Pelosi.
Republicans oppose the wall too.
So could they.
The ‘RATS so strongly oppose national security that they would rather shut down the government than allow it to engage properly in the common defense.
Media working hard to make a shutdown “Trump’s Fault!”.
“Bipartisan lawmakers call for ‘clean’ spending bill with no border wall funding”
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/330186-bipartisan-lawmakers-call-for-clean-spending-bill-with-no-border-wall-funding
“Reality is no excuse!” motto of the political media.
“Trump says Democrats can avert shutdown risk if they relent on wall”
That’s another way to frame it.
The usual suspects doing what has worked in the past with the weak, stupid, hand-wringing “conservatives” (ie. much of the GOP) and help from the Enemy in Chief, Obama.
But there’s a new sheriff in town who doesn’t buy this b/s. So instead this b/s will blow up in their face.
Oh, please, please, please, let the demonRats continue this line of thinking. It plays perfectly into Trump’s hand. I hope they do shut down the government.
Sounds like blackmail.
Shut the mother f***er down.
Every last stinking bit of it.
How would the government be shut down with Republicans in the majority?
If the islamists and their facilitators don’t want to participate in governance, then move without them.
I want to see the rats go down fighting for open borders with Mexico. El Chapo approves their message.
Shut it down.
How would the government be shut down with Republicans in the majority?
That’s the question that keeps crossing my mind. Why are Dems even a factor?
The Dems forget who controls government spending during the “shutdown.”
It is as empty of a threat as can be.
I’ve been hearing the ***holes say all morning that the wall won’t stop anyone anyway so what’s the problem? One retarded ‘RAT moron went as far as saying that the illegals aren’t coming in across the border. He claims the illegals are here because they “overstayed” their visas. Too many recreational drugs I guess.
GOOD! Make it about the wall!
And does anyone truly believe Chuck and Nancy that IF Trump abandoned his Wall; that they would get a budget deal done by Friday?
I guess only those who believe in the Easter Bunny and Climate Change.
WaPo = A Whale of Poo
Don’t believe those Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
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