Trump, top Democrats to discuss border security funding as government shutdown looms

[Mileage Psycho]

Our president said Mexico was going to pay for the wall.

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Trump, top Democrats to discuss border security funding as government shutdown looms

WASHINGTON – The two top Democrats in Congress head to the White House on Tuesday for a meeting with President Donald Trump as the two sides work to end an impasse over border security funding and approve must-pass spending legislation before the end of the year.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will sit down with Trump in the Oval Office with less than two weeks until some government departments and agencies run out of money. The meeting had been scheduled for last week but was delayed because of the death of former President George H.W. Bush.

Trump is demanding that Congress give him $5 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and has warned that he’d be willing to shut down the government unless Congress allocates the full amount.

Lawmakers have until midnight Dec. 21 to resolve the dispute or risk a partial government shutdown.

"Republicans still control the House, the Senate and the White House, and they have the power to keep the government open," Schumer and Pelosi said in a joint statement late Monday.

"Our country cannot afford a Trump shutdown, especially at this time of economic uncertainty," the Democratic leaders said. "This holiday season, the president 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."

Budget talks have essentially been on pause pending Trump’s meeting with Schumer and Pelosi. A short-term spending bill that has kept the government operating expired last Friday, but lawmakers passed a two-week extension to buy them more time to negotiate.

Congress already has passed five spending bills for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, but seven others still await congressional action.

The bills that need approval would fund the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Homeland Security, Interior, State, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, as well as several smaller agencies.

Those are the departments and agencies that would be impacted if there is a partial government shutdown.

Border security funding remains the major sticking point in passing the remaining spending bills.

Building a wall along the U.S-Mexico border was one of Trump’s pivotal promises during the 2016 presidential campaign. Though at the time he said repeatedly that Mexico would pay for the wall, Trump is now demanding that Congress provide $5 billion to erect the barrier.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-top-democrats-to-discuss-border-security-funding-as-government-shutdown-looms/ar-BBQN7f1

 

 

 

[Jimmy Snacks]

Just another lie that will be explained away or ignored by the hacks.

[steve from amherst]

Trump wants 2.5 this yr. Dems want to give 1.5. Call it 2 and do the damn thing.

[Zambroski]

1 minute ago, steve from amherst said:

Trump wants 2.5 this yr. Dems want to give 1.5. Call it 2 and do the damn thing.

Just supply gas and meals to our citizens that want to go down and protect the border.  Hell...just allow them to do it and not pay a fucking thing.  We'll have 100,000 members of the "Duck Dynasty" there by the end of the week.  Loaded for bear, safety off.  I wonder how much all those accidental GSWs would cost?  Worth it.

 

[Jimmy Snacks]

1 hour ago, Zambroski said:

Just supply gas and meals to our citizens that want to go down and protect the border.  Hell...just allow them to do it and not pay a fucking thing.  We'll have 100,000 members of the "Duck Dynasty" there by the end of the week.  Loaded for bear, safety off.  I wonder how much all those accidental GSWs would cost?  Worth it.

 

And more nonsense and ignoring of Trump lies....fuck you’re an idiot.

[1jkw]

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I say build all the wall Mexico will pay for.

[Angry ginger]

1 hour ago, Mileage Psycho said:

Our president said Mexico was going to pay for the wall.

 

 

but they are through his tremendous trade deal.  A deal better than any other trade deal ever negotiated in the history of this country.  A trade deal that will ensure companies keep jobs in america and not mexico.  

 

 

 

[revkevsdi]

10 minutes ago, 1jkw said:

I say build all the wall Mexico will pay for.

Brilliant. Kind of disappointing that not one Democrat has said that. 

[1jkw]

3 minutes ago, revkevsdi said:

Brilliant. Kind of disappointing that not one Democrat has said that. 

Or not one Republican.

[ActionfigureJoe]

20 minutes ago, 1jkw said:

I say build all the wall Mexico will pay for.

The trump people sure are that up. 

[Mainecat]

1 hour ago, Zambroski said:

Just supply gas and meals to our citizens that want to go down and protect the border.  Hell...just allow them to do it and not pay a fucking thing.  We'll have 100,000 members of the "Duck Dynasty" there by the end of the week.  Loaded for bear, safety off.  I wonder how much all those accidental GSWs would cost?  Worth it.

 

A true Russian operative speaks.

[1jkw]

21 minutes ago, Angry ginger said:

but they are through his tremendous trade deal.  A deal better than any other trade deal ever negotiated in the history of this country.  A trade deal that will ensure companies keep jobs in america and not mexico.  

 

 

 

The one that kept all those GM jobs here, oh never mind.

[ActionfigureJoe]

2 hours ago, Mainecat said:

A true Russian operative speaks.

Putin would’ve had him put down.