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that vid
"Sources say that the meeting got off to a bad start, with Republicans accusing Democrats of interrupting Homeland Security officials."
Gidley: 'Scary' that Dem plan to reopen government spends more on foreign aid than border security
From 'Depleted' Food Stores to Understaffed Health Clinics, Native Americans 'Among Hardest Hit' by Trump Shutdown
"The longer the D.C. stalemate lasts, the more dire their situation becomes."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...?cd-origin=rss
that's simply a lie
ONLY ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL AND DEPARTMENTS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-shutdown.html
Here’s Nancy Pelosi’s plan to corner Trump and trap Mitch McConnell using his own legislation
Pelosi plans to introduce and pass the same funding bill that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shepherded through the Senate by voice vote two weeks ago —
which happens to not include funding for Trump’s wall!
By passing this bill in the Senate but blocking it in the House on Trump’s order,
Republicans boxed themselves in.
They cannot easily claim that their own bill they just voted for in the Senate is soft on border security.
Nor can they pin the blame on Pelosi for not retaking up the alternative House bill
that included Trump’s wall funding, because that bill was rejected by the Senate.
That leaves McConnell with two choices.
He can bring the original bill to the floor for near-certain passage, after which Trump will be forced to either surrender or veto it and once again take credit for the shutdown.
Or,
he can block the bill from going to a vote at all, and share the blame with Trump for the shutdown as,
in the other chamber of the Capitol,
Pelosi and House Democrats cast themselves as the sole adults who are trying to get the government reopened and back to work.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/her...e+Raw+Story%29
‘Trump is afraid of his base’ and won’t open government because the ‘Right beat the daylights’ out of him: Chuck Schumer
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/chu...e+Raw+Story%29
Are Americans really tracking this that closely to know what's going on with all that legislative maneuvering?
Heh. Funnier than the accordion video.
Republicans keep own-goaling themselves.
It is fun to watch.
Not really.
What it boils down to is quick, easy to understand soundbites. "Democrats voted on a spending bill to re-open the government. Republicans won't vote on it in the Senate"
Democrats voted to re-open. Republicans refuse to even vote.
Simple. Quick. Easy to magnify and define the narrative.
Senior Trump Administration Officials Set to Receive $10,000 Raises During the Shutdown
Because of a pay freeze that is set to expire during the government shutdown, Cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries, high-ranking administrators, and Vice President Mike Pence
are all scheduled to receive raises of $10,000 or more on Saturday,
officials are worried about the appearance of granting raises to high-paid officials while lower-level federal workers struggle with finances.
Pence, for example, will see his pay bump up from more than $230,000 to about $243,000
Cabinet secretaries will go from more than $199,000 to over $210,000.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...on-raises.html
Hundreds of TSA workers are now calling out sick.
This shutdown isn’t going to last. The economy is going to start cratering once people can’t travel and you’ll start seeing Republicans like Cocaine Mitch pressuring Trump to fold.
acting like there's $14 billion stuffed in a mattress in Mexico.
What do you know about it?
I know it's not stuffed in a mattress in Mexico.
Trump Says He Is Willing to Close the Government for “Years” to Get His Wall
Kaitlan Collins
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Chuck Schumer says President Trump told him he’s prepared to keep the government shut down for months or even years.
12:36 PM - Jan 4, 2019
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...ast-years.html
Trump Threatens To Declare A National Emergency To Build His Wall
“We could call a national emergency
because of the security of our country.
Absolutely.
No, we can do it.
I haven’t done it.
I may do it.
I may do it.
But we could call a national emergency and
build it very quickly and
that is another way of doing it.”
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01...iticus+USA+%29
Talk is cheap, like his tacky ass, makeup, hair.
Trump declaring a state of emergency to build the wall?
Yea or nay?
Is it a national emergency only a wall can fix? Two years of Republican rule apparently didn't.
Yahoo News
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President Trump says the government will not open until border issue is solved:
"It's a problem of terrorists, you know,
I talk about human traffickers,
I talk about drugs,
I talk about gangs..."
"They drive right in and they make a left"
1:37 PM - Jan 4, 2019
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