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| President Trump to meet with Democrats on border wall, shutdown |
| 2018-12-11 |
| WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders are seeking to avert a partial government shutdown amid a sharp dispute over Trump’s border wall and a lengthy to-do list that includes a major farm bill and a formal rebuke of Saudi Arabia for the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump is set to confer Tuesday at the White House with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer ahead of a Dec. 21 deadline to shut down a range of government agencies. "Republicans still control the House, the Senate and the White House, and they have the power to keep government open," Pelosi and Schumer said in a joint statement Monday. "Our country cannot afford a Trump Shutdown," the Democrats said, adding that Trump "knows full well that his wall proposal does not have the votes to pass the House and Senate and should not be an obstacle to a bipartisan agreement." Republican congressional leaders have repeatedly said it’s up to Trump to cut a deal with Democrats, an acknowledgement of their own inability to produce spending bills with Republican votes alone. That gives Democrats some momentum heading into the closed-door talks, which also could veer into Trump’s request for emergency funding for deadly wildfires in California and a Republican-sponsored bill to extend expiring tax breaks and delay some health-care taxes. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Slightly o/t: Mr. Trump, in defending our (or maybe not) position regarding the wall, calls out "illegal drugs" (an abstract) without tying it to how many deathes, direct and indirect, and without reference to the hard dollar costs of emergency services, families reduced to welfare, associative crime, etc. Wish he would give us some relatable quants that plunk our ""magic twanger." |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2018-12-11 21:36 |
| #4 Nancy Pelosi to PDJT: "You will not win." I suspect Ms. Pelosi is soon going to get a reality check. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2018-12-11 20:31 |
| #3 Republicans should put out a bill putting military funding as a separate deal from all other budget matters and push it through while they still have a majority. I'd also like to see something saying that when Washington is closed it is closed, back pay will not be made up as soon as it is opened, budget negotiations are not a paid holiday but I'd prefer to keep that separate to ensure the Military is not held hostage by budget fights. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-12-11 13:41 |
| #2 "PELOSI, SCHUMER TELL TRUMP NOT TO DISCUSS BORDER FUNDING TALKS IN PUBLIC: ‘LET’S DEBATE IN PRIVATE’" How about NO! Mr. Trump held their feet to the fire in front of G*d and everybody, and the Donks don't like that one bit. Heh.... |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-12-11 13:03 |
| #1 "Our country cannot afford a Trump Shutdown," the Democrats said... But it's perfectly acceptable for House Democrats to shutdown the government. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-12-11 11:14 |