Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, on Tuesday night said that President Donald Trump was willing to sign a temporary funding measure that did not include money to build a border wall.
During an interview on CNN, host Jake Tapper noted to Mulvaney that Republicans have proposed a funding measure without money for the wall and asked if Trump would be willing to sign that. Mulvaney replied that he was.
He added that the White House has agreed with Democrats on including funding for other aspects of border security.
“The offer that we received from the Democrats the last couple days included a good bit of money for border security,” Mulvaney said, adding that those funds will allow Trump to “follow through on his promise to make that border more secure.”
Mulvaney said that the Trump administration is “not backing down” from its plans to build a border wall, however.
“We just thought that it would be a good first step to get these things that everybody agrees on and take that idea of a government shutdown off the table,” he said.
Mulvaney’s comments came after the Trump administration waffled on its demand that the funding measure include money for the border wall on Monday and Tuesday. Trump reportedly told conservative journalists Monday night that he would be willing to wait on funds for the border wall, but White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer insisted Tuesday afternoon that Trump’s priorities had not changed regarding the wall.
This sounds fairly reasonable. Please, Mr. Mulvaney, it’s confusing to hear common sense coming from Current Occupant’s administration.
Check out “real” Donald’s tweets, and you’ll be assured that sanity has not returned.
Exactly. Those tweets from CO are to bamboozle his followers – not clue them in to what’s really happening. This is why those folks need to obtain their news from sources other than BrickShit and Fux News – they live in their own echoing bubble and CO depends on that being the case.
Oh, cheez. I checked in a couple of hours ago (the 3 a.m. - 5 a.m. witching hour) and was surprised that there was nothing there. Now, as you say, insanity again.
Only thing missing is a declaration of war against Germany because Ivanka darling got booed there yesterday when she tried to flog Daddy-o as a supporter of women’s rights… But maybe that’s still coming…
I figured some digs at Ivanka’s Canadian boyfriend with porn star looks are coming soon.