Posted on 04/24/2017 7:21:16 AM PDT by davikkm
USA Today is reporting that the government may shut down by this coming Friday if Congress does not provide President Trump with a bill to keep it going.
Congress returns Monday with just five days left to keep the government from shutting down, and President Trump is adding to the pressure by demanding money for a Southwest border wall and other controversial programs that threaten a bipartisan deal.
Lawmakers passed a stop-gap spending bill in December to fund federal agencies through midnight next Friday. Congressional leaders are now scrambling to reach a bipartisan compromise on new legislation to keep the money flowing through fiscal 2017, which ends on Sept. 30.
FOX News reports that President Trump’s Budget Director will not say whether the President will mandate money for a border wall in this week’s discussions with Congress.
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney declined to say Sunday whether President Trump will insist Congress include money for his border wall in a spending bill or risk a government shutdown later this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
Also, nobody controls the narrative more effectively than Trump. They don’t have the bully pulpit any more, and I don’t think that has really sunk in with them yet.
Never mind this, whose toilet did President Trump overflow last week?</MSM>
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