Posted on 12/20/2018 10:55:25 AM PST by bitt
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that President Trump would not sign a Senate bill passed Wednesday which would keep the government funded through February. The bill would avert a government shutdown as Christmas and the new year approach, but Mr. Trump is unwilling to sign a bill which does not contain funding for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
Ryan said that the House Republicans would rework their bill to include wall funding.
"We're going to go back and work on adding border security to this also keeping the government open because we want to see an agreement," Ryan said. Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney and House Freedom Caucus leaders Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows met with Mr. Trump at noon.
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methinks DJT reminded Ryan of his perfidious aide’s actions...
MOAR FTA:
Ryan says Trump won’t sign Senate bill keeping government open
House Republican leaders met with President Trump Thursday morning to figure out a path forward on the continuing resolution to keep the government funded through February, which the Senate passed Wednesday. The bill would avert a government shutdown as Christmas and the new year approach.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip Steve Scalise, Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney and House Freedom Caucus leaders Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows met with Mr. Trump at noon.
Ryan canceled his weekly press availability Thursday to take a phone call from Mr. Trump. Meanwhile, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said that Republicans are in “disarray” right now.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that Mr. Trump would be meeting with Republican House members at noon on Thursday, adding that he “does not want to go further without border security, which includes steel slats or a wall.” In a tweet Thursday morning, Mr. Trump suggested that steel slats were equivalent to a border wall.
The president added a sense of uncertainty to the prospects for the bill when he tweeted Thursday morning, “When I begrudgingly signed the Omnibus Bill, I was promised the Wall and Border Security by leadership. Would be done by end of year (NOW). It didn’t happen! We foolishly fight for Border Security for other countries - but not for our beloved U.S.A. Not good!”
Pelosi on Thursday said that additional wall funding would be a “non-starter.” She said she doesn’t think there’s ever an ironclad guarantee that the president will sign anything. If Republicans vote to pass the funding bill, and the president doesn’t sign it, it will look like they gave up too easily on his wall funding, CBS News’ Nancy Cordes points out. Democrats, who just won over 100 seats in the midterm elections and are set to take the majority in January, have little incentive to cooperate.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer reiterated that Democrats are not willing to support $5 billion in wall funding.
“Democrats are not budging on the wall. We favor smart, effective border security, not a medieval wall,” Schumer said. “They can, having caught the trump temper tantrum fever, jump up and down, yell and scream. It is not going to get a wall. And they, neither Mr. Meadows or Mr. Jordan have outlined any conceivable plan on how to achieve what they say they want to achieve.”
Reps. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., and Mo Brooks, R-Ala., say there are two big concerns right now: First, there’s “no guarantee,” as Curbelo put it, that President Trump will sign the bill. Brooks called it “the $5 billion question.” Mr. Trump’s conservative allies, including Reps. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, are urging him to veto the bill because of a lack of southern border wall funding.
Adding to the uncertainty, senators were told Wednesday night that they could leave at their discretion. A not insignificant number of them have apparently already left town or are preparing to do so. So, if the House passes a measure that is other than the Senate-passed continuing resolution, it will take some time to get senators back to Washington for a vote.
Ryan: “Mommy, Make him sign it!”
The Republicans control both houses - a border security bill should have been ready to drop in the hopper on the first day of this session, and passed by both houses within the month!
It is INEXCUSABLE that we don’t already have this - and it is Ryan’s and McConnell’s fault. These 2 need to get off of their asses and actual do something...because Nancy will never do squat.
Ryno could still pass the stop gap bill using dems. Then we would have a test in the senate to override the veto. If they can override the veto, they can impeach and remove Trump. Best to find out now anyway.
All my sens and rep are dems - but I called each local and DC offices and demanded they vote for the 5B for the wall.
If they supported 150B to give Iran they can damn well give DJT 5B for our protection!
If you don’t have all their numbers on your cell phone, and USE them, shame on you.
Ryan aka butt boy and pugsley, is an ass.
Trump’s calling their bluff and they are folding.
For once I don’t have a bleedin’ clue as to what’s really going on but I suspect that Trump has been hearing the rage from the base with the Ann Coulters of the world telling him he’s good for one thing and if that one thing is no good then neither is he.
But I also suspect that the Dems, especially Pelosi, aren’t used to being sandbagged. They are used to total capitulation by Republicans and Pelosi is an especially odious gloater as she demonstrated last night with her cringe-inducing dance routine.
Either Trump intended to lull them to sleep or he’s had an attack of conscience or a more practical re-think of his electoral prospects if he snubs his base.
At any rate, the go-along-to-get-along crowd in DC just wants to go home for Xmas and sit on the couch but Trump isn’t having it. Time to start twisting some arms.
pLousy has been contending ever since the Oval Office meeting that Republicans don’t have the votes for a wall in the House.
We’re about to find out.
The very, absolute LAST thing Ryan and his CoC “Republicans” wanted to do was have a vote to test that contention by pLousy.
Trump has decided to expose them. And they’ll be exposed in the Senate too.
And once exposed they’ll never, ever receive another Republican vote.
They’re in a vice. Vote with Trump and the big money dries up completely. Vote against him and no more base Republican votes in their next election.
Crashing down comes the Republican house of cards. And it’s high time.
The GOP has been the biggest obstacle to The Presidents agenda.I do not understand how the RINOS have survived this long.
Take that bMitch and cRyan...
Didn’t work so swell did it.
“If they can override the veto, they can impeach and remove Trump. Best to find out now anyway.”
A veto override requires 2/3 of BOTH chambers of Congress.
That’s a HIGHER threshold than impeachment which only requires 50% +1 in the House and 2/3 in the Senate.
The big money will not dry up
The big money will merely find something else to pay for
After the dems take over the house, it’s a given. The senate is where I’m not sure they wouldn’t vote to convict.
All 25 billion should have been funded from day 1. But regarding this 5 billion, do you think reps and dems will at least “compromise” in order to get most of the 5 billion?
“The senate is where I’m not sure they wouldn’t vote to convict.”
There are not 29 Republican Senators that would vote to convict, and subject themselves and their families to such peril.
The nation would completely melt down and the rule of law would be ignored by everyone.
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