During a meeting with Republican leadership on Thursday, President Trump indicated he wanted to avoid a government shutdown, but would not commit to signing a funding bill that didn’t include the $5 billion he wants for his border wall, The Washington Post reported.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) told reporters after the funding meeting on Thursday that Trump was “noncommittal” — in the Post’s words — about how he wanted funding negotiations to proceed in the coming weeks.
“He didn’t say, ‘I’m going to keep the government open,’ We didn’t ask him that question,” Shelby told reporters Thursday, according to the Post. “We talked about avoiding a shutdown. … He seemed to agree with that.”
According to a person familiar with discussions who spoke to the Post, Trump’s staff has told him that he might not get the full $5 billion he’s hoping for, given the legislation’s passage will hinge on Democratic support in the Senate, according to the Post. Trump followed Republican leadership’s advice by not shutting down the government over wall funding before midterms, a move that Trump was openly unhappy about.
It’s hard to negotiate with a child.
And you KNOW how he gets when he’s openly unhappy. He fumes and vows to make people pay.
Any people, doesn’t really matter who…
The only thing our side needs to say to this bullshit is that he said Mexico would pay for it.
President Humpty Drumpfty and his wall obsession. Pity he isn’t terribly literate or he would know that it won’t end well for him. And with Mueller bearing down post midterms he soon won’t have any GOP horses or GOP stooges in the House in chairmanship positions to put him back together again.
Maybe there’s still time to get funding and get that wall built before all those angry mobs come and have to be fended off by our brave bored troops.