12-23-2018, 01:34 PM
Earlier this year, Trump agreed to offer a path to citizenship to DACA recipients (Dreamers) and the Democrats agreed to give Trump $25billion for border security in exchange.
That was a very good deal for Trump; the majority of the country supports the Dreamer act and does not agree that a great big beautiful wall is needed all across our borders.
The Democrats had little power in Congress at that time. But, Trump got an earful from the hard right........and walked away from that gift.
Week before last, after the Democrats won the House bigly in the 2018 midterms, Chuck and Nancy told Trump they'd agree to between $1.3 and $1.6 billion more dollars for border security to keep the government open til February, when the new Congress will have had some time to negotiate on border security, immigration reform, etc.
That was a reasonable offer, in my opinion -- the government sill hasn't spent the $1.6 billion for border security which was awarded in the last funding bill.
However, Trump told Chuck Schumer over and over that he wouldn't accept anything less than than the $5 billion he demanded and proclaimed repeatedly that he would proudly own a government shutdown if he didn't get it.
That put the Republican congresspersons in a very tricky position. Several of them do not support funding The Wall. And, none of them wanted the party to own yet another shutdown.
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That was a very good deal for Trump; the majority of the country supports the Dreamer act and does not agree that a great big beautiful wall is needed all across our borders.
The Democrats had little power in Congress at that time. But, Trump got an earful from the hard right........and walked away from that gift.
Week before last, after the Democrats won the House bigly in the 2018 midterms, Chuck and Nancy told Trump they'd agree to between $1.3 and $1.6 billion more dollars for border security to keep the government open til February, when the new Congress will have had some time to negotiate on border security, immigration reform, etc.
That was a reasonable offer, in my opinion -- the government sill hasn't spent the $1.6 billion for border security which was awarded in the last funding bill.
However, Trump told Chuck Schumer over and over that he wouldn't accept anything less than than the $5 billion he demanded and proclaimed repeatedly that he would proudly own a government shutdown if he didn't get it.
That put the Republican congresspersons in a very tricky position. Several of them do not support funding The Wall. And, none of them wanted the party to own yet another shutdown.
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