Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Sunday said he didn’t think Democratic lawmakers would be “very smart” to force a government shutdown if Republicans do not agree to implement protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.
“That’s a ridiculous position. There is no crisis,” McConnell said on ABC News’ “This Week,” of the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants whose legal protections under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program were thrown into question when President Donald Trump rescinded the program in September.
He said Trump has given lawmakers “until March to address the issue,” but said “there’s no emergency.”
“I don’t think that Democrats would be very smart to say they want to shut down the government over a non-emergency that we can address any time between now and March,” McConnell said. “That’s an very untenable position.”
The last time a political party forced the U.S. government to shut down, Republicans were trying to defund Obamacare in 2013, a strategy which ultimately failed.
“I can’t imagine that they’d want to shut down the government over an issue that’s not an emergency,” McConnell said, referring to Democratic lawmakers.
“Well, Republicans have a majority in the House and the Senate,” George Stephanopoulos pointed out.
“Look, there’s not going to be a government shutdown,” McConnell replied. “It’s just not going to happen.”
.@SenateMajLdr on Democrats threatening to shutdown the government over DACA: “That’s a ridiculous position. There is no crisis.” #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/onsjB6qQfS
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) December 3, 2017
After what he just did with the tax bill? F that.
“Trump has given us until March to address the issue…”
In other words, DACA isn’t going to happen.
I agree.
But enough about the hell-bent rush to cut billionaire taxes in an economy the GOP brags is already booming.
So their talking points will be, if a shutdown occurs, Democrats are only doing this because of illegals.
Good to know.