Posted on 02/08/2019 9:02:12 AM PST by GIdget2004
Faced with limited options and a looming deadline to prevent another government shutdown, President Trump is showing new flexibility on a border-security deal that would fall well short of his once-firm demand for $5.7 billion in funds for a wall at the southwestern frontier.
On Capitol Hill, House and Senate conferees were nearing an agreement that could offer the president around $2 billion in funding for physical barriers, a number, still subject to change, that could result in a deal as early as Monday.
“We’re 95 to 98 percent done,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
It remains unclear if Mr. Trump will accept a figure of around $2 billion or how much of the final allocation would go for new fencing, according to three people briefed on the negotiations. But members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which had earlier pushed Mr. Trump to take an uncompromising line on wall funding, met with him on Thursday, and they indicated that any number above $2 billion would satisfy them for now.
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The House Freedom Caucus says they can live with any number higher than $2 billion.
Compromise on the wall is unacceptable.
The all or nothing attitude always gets us nothing
Well, there quite often is what the NYT wants to tell people versus a likely different reality.
NO!!!!! he BETTER NOT FOLD!
and the constant fold of the republicans has got us in this mess
I would think $2B this cycle is a win. It really means pelosi and smuckie folded, because they said “NO WALL” at all. But it’s just speculation at this point, maybe even a trial balloon, until we see the actual deal.
It’s the NY Times, can’t trust a word they write.
Less than half?
To the perpetually faint of heart, this is the NUT!
Good grief FR has far too many panty-waists lurking about!
NUT= NYT
Why do the shutdown if you’re going to accept what they were offering?
Primary, Primary, Primary
2 billion this year, 2 billion next year, 2 billion the following year, and on and on. That will work.
Trump will continue to move the ball in his direction, month by month.
The $5.7 was a negotiating number to end up at the max he thought he could realistically stretch them to.
He will be back.
That’s just about what they were offering before the shutdown.
Why accept it now?
No wall, no re-election. He needs to keep this promise.
Yeah I’m sure he has.... go away schmucks.
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