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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No wall, no re-election. It’s that simple.
We’re losing him. Ryano and Koch Bros ae visiting the WH regulatory. I miss Bannon.
Open your eyes, tons of wall going up right NOW.
We’re losing him. Ryano and Koch Bros are visiting the WH regulatory. I miss Bannon.
Declare a National Emergency. These politicians have talked about border security since the 1986 amnesty bill.
Do you have evidence that the Koch’s are visiting the WH?
In other words, Dem will continue to import illegals to illegally vote. Trump will continue to import more foreign workers, and we Americans keep getting f*****.
Lou Dobbs said Koch Bros and Ryano have been seen there recently. Might only be rumor but I have no reason to not believe it. Kushner loves them.
Yeah, you’d rather have the communist ignorant slut Harris filling the Supreme Court?
That’s real smart.
Do Not Cave!
Ok Settle for 5.699 billion.
Get what you can, declare victory, vow to fight on. That’s government in a Democratic Republic.
Funny how it works with the RATS. It's time to stop giving in to these assholes. PERIOD.
Do you recognize that he doesn’t have the power to keep this promise, nor did he ever have it?
He has the Constitutional power, whether he does it or not is the question.
If Leahy is involved, it ain’t good.
Constitutional power? That’s exactly what he does not have.
How much amnesty are we going to give for some token fencing?
It is more than no reelection. We are losing the country due to the open border. The Left/Uniparty is importing millions of permanently dependent Democrat voters. They are swamping American voters and will soon assure that the Democrats will "win" all future elections for President. This a population replacement strategy and those troublesome voters who have a problem with the Socialists, Marxists, and out and out Communists will soon be neutralized.
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