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Nancy Pelosi rejects 'Dreamers' for wall money deal
Washington Times ^ | December 6, 2018 | By Stephen Dinan

Posted on 12/06/2018 3:23:00 PM PST by Jim Robinson

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday flatly rejected the idea of approving funding for President Trump’s border wall in exchange for protections for illegal immigrant “Dreamers.”

“They’re two different subjects,” the California Democrat said.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are searching for a solution to a budget impasse, with Mr. Trump’s demand for $5 billion in border wall money the major hurdle right now.

The president has suggested he would force a partial government shutdown unless he gets the money he’s asking for. GOP leaders on Capitol Hill are interested in delivering, but Democrats, who maintain veto powers thanks to the Senate filibuster, say they can’t accept $5 billion.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer has said his party would pass a Homeland Security spending bill that includes $1.6 billion — which was the administration’s original request back when it submitted its first budget. He also said another option would be to continue Homeland Security funding over from 2018, which included $1.6 billion for border security.

But he insisted that money would only go to fencing, and not to what Mr. Trump has envisioned as his wall.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; buildthewall; dreamers; elsalvador; guatemala; honduras; illegals; invaders; invasion; pelosi; schumer; wall
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Good. Any such deal is a bad deal. Shut the damn government down until the dems yell uncle. Even so, our border is a national security issue. The Commander-in-Chief should find a way to secure it out of the national defense/homeland security budgets. Any recent law passed by Ryan, et al, forbidding construction of border defences should be waived. Declare a state of national emergency regarding the alien invasion and get 'er done.
1 posted on 12/06/2018 3:23:00 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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Well I don’t want dreamers for the wall either. And that’s checkmate against the American people because that is likely what we’ll get.


2 posted on 12/06/2018 3:25:47 PM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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“They’re two different subjects,” the California Democrat said.

A small step in the right direction. Enough of this "comprehensive" and "omnibus" legislation bull dung.

3 posted on 12/06/2018 3:26:12 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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For me, it’s “wall “ or nuthin’. Fund the wall or sit around for 2 years.


4 posted on 12/06/2018 3:28:03 PM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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To: Jim Robinson

The Democrats are not interested in solutions. They never are.


5 posted on 12/06/2018 3:30:33 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Pelousy and Schumer, two real beauts who continue to want more illegals voting through their voter harvesting schemes. Makes me so mad.


6 posted on 12/06/2018 3:30:33 PM PST by Metrobank
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Seems like we’ve been here before?


7 posted on 12/06/2018 3:33:07 PM PST by Leep (we need a Trump like leader for President 2024!)
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activists should launch a crowdfunding measure to build the wall and have the President force congress to match funds put up by the American people to build the wall, this would turn out to be a political win if large donors would contribute initially and millions of small donors added on. Sell off memoral portions of the wall to those families that have had a loved one killed by an illegal. President could use social media to make it happen. Additionally he could tax any money transfer transactions going back to Mexico to in effect make Mexico share the responsibility, there are a whole host of work arounds to secure the money for the wall and screw the resist Democrats over at the same time.


8 posted on 12/06/2018 3:33:14 PM PST by Typical_Whitey
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Just ORDER the wall built and finished , Mr. President . Screw Congress . Use all the U.S. $ cash money seized from drug dealers , rouge nations and terrorist org to fund the project . Order that illegal immigrants arrested be sentenced to work hard labor on it as well .
The moneys are their , tied up in legal appeals , stored in vast warehouses . Annul all appeals and use the cash .


9 posted on 12/06/2018 3:36:08 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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I don’t want that deal - it is a loser. Kick every last illegal out. No excuse to be an illegal. None. Don’t care what the country of origin is.


10 posted on 12/06/2018 3:39:19 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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Fund it from, and build with, the Defense budget.

If this isn't a defense issue - a duty assigned to the purview of the Executive in the Constitution - then what the hell is ?!

11 posted on 12/06/2018 3:42:56 PM PST by tomkat
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By the time these clueless voters that keep re-electing folks like loser Pelosi realize their mistakes, the Democrats will have destroyed us as a sovereign nation.


12 posted on 12/06/2018 3:47:43 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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They’re two different subjects,” the California Democrat said.

isn't that how deals are made ? So she doesn't really want any deal.
13 posted on 12/06/2018 3:48:36 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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It’s their way or nothing (which will turn out to be their way anyway).


14 posted on 12/06/2018 3:50:30 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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I reject it too!


15 posted on 12/06/2018 3:51:46 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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Screw the dems slap a $5 dollar surcharge on every money order leaving THE USA....


16 posted on 12/06/2018 3:56:01 PM PST by straps (What a joke...)
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“but Democrats, who maintain veto powers thanks to the Senate filibuster, say they can’t accept $5 billion”

Time to drop the vote to 50. Didn’t they do that with Obamacare?


17 posted on 12/06/2018 3:56:02 PM PST by ScottfromNJ
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Instead of a wall how about a 50 ft. deep and 50 ft. wide pit filled with 10 ft. steel spikes and razor wire. Anybody who survives gets a free ticket back home after a 20 year prison sentence in solitary confinement.

The penalties for illegal immigration are too light and have no deterrent effect.

18 posted on 12/06/2018 3:57:12 PM PST by rllngrk33 (Time for all patriotic Americans to boycott liberals and all SJW/PC bullsh*t.)
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Reminder.. there were Zero vetoed spending bills last year.
My guess is.. zero this year too. # Liars


19 posted on 12/06/2018 4:02:13 PM PST by momincombatboots (How many vetoed spending dollars with chuck n Nancy without wall funding?)
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Lucy ALWAYS pulls the football out from under Charlie Brown. And Charlie ALWAYS returns for more punishment. We don’t feel sorry for Charlie because he is so clueless. We don’t hate Lucy because she can’t help herself when CB is so resolved to be exploited. It is all 100% predictable and inevitable.

How is it that the Dems, Never Trumpers, foreign potentates, etc set themselves up to lose so obviously every time? It is not OK for our President to call anyone Horseface, or to mock China’s sovereign by calling himself Tariff Man or ... And yet ... these knuckleheads are so utterly oblivious that I have no sympathy for them or anger toward the president. I shake my head. I wish he wouldn’t. And yet I think the temptation is just too overwhelming, in exactly the same way that it is for Lucy.

Pelosi is the best and brightest of the Democrats. She may be the most gifted politician of our generation. And even she puts up these non-negotiables that pin her down to a sure-lose position. President Trump will make her eat those words. What is it with these people????


20 posted on 12/06/2018 4:07:18 PM PST by drellberg
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