Posted on 12/11/2018 1:14:13 PM PST by Red Badger
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday warned that the American people don’t want to see a partial government shutdown and expressed hope it could be avoided hours after President Trump in a meeting with Democratic leaders said he was willing to shut down the government for tougher border security.
“I hope that’s not where we end up. I understand it was a rather spirited meeting,” McConnell told reporters when asked by reporters about Trump’s threat.
McConnell later warned that forcing a shutdown would be a political mistake for either side in the battle over funding for a wall on Mexico's border.
“One thing I think is pretty clear no matter who precipitates the government shutdown is the American people don’t like it,” he said.
“I hope that will be avoided and both sides understand that’s not a great way to end what has in my view has been the most successful Congress, right of center, in decades,” he added.
McConnell saw his party take a political hit in 2013 when House conservatives provoked a 16-day government shutdown by insisting on legislation blocking the implementation of ObamaCare.
Democrats appeared to take the political hit last year after the government briefly closed over Democratic demands for "Dreamers," young people who came to the country illegally as children but were given the ability to stay through executive action by the Obama administration. Trump withdrew those actions.
Congress still has to finish seven appropriations bills this year that fund about 25 percent of the federal government’s discretionary budget.
Government funding for several departments and agencies will expire after Dec. 21.
Trump told Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who were both at the White House Tuesday morning, that he would accept the blame for a shutdown over border security.
“I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it,” he said.
He’s SWAMP through and through.
How about you fight for it mitch, rather then let Trump ALL the heavy lifting.
F-—ing Republican invertebrates suck.
How about you fight for it mitch, rather then let Trump do ALL the heavy lifting.
Turtle has been in office for about 100 years so he has had plenty of time to get it done. Time for action.
POTUS needs to blow these tools off and stick to his guns.
Hey Mitch you buy us a wall and we’ll buy you set of balls.
We,The People,stand with Trump turtle.
McConnell is a sewer rat.
McConnell lives to gorge on the fruit of the hunt.
He just doesn’t want to get any blood on him.
Good God Almighty!
How tone deaf and galactically wrong can the Senate Majority Leader possibly be?
You insult sewer rats. Sewer rats know how to get what they want.
“I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it,” he said.
The American people want secure borders.
If the government gets shut down they will know who is to
blame.
Message to McConnell: Deal with it! Fund the wall, fund all of it, throw in e-Verify while you’re at it, and move on.
Translation: our big donors won’t like it if I can’t deliver some more hog slop on time
Hey Mitch, remember when you buffaloed Trump into signing the last pork bill and stripped out the wall funds saying “next time”?
Well now it’s next time.
As in, NOW or NEVER birdbrain.
*****Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday warned that the American people don’t want to see a partial government shutdown....*****
He’s right——I want to see a return to limited government and almost total shut down of government.
Mitch, no one wants a shutdown, but most want YOU to get on-board the Trump Wall Train.
Mitch the bitch s going to override a veto, bet on it.
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