Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Friday after a meeting with President Donald Trump that “[w]e made some progress, but we still have a good number of disagreements.”
“We had a long and detailed meeting,” Schumer told reporters outside the Oval Office. “We discussed all of the major outstanding issues. We made some progress, but we still have a good number of disagreements. The discussions will continue.”
Trump had called Schumer to the White House Friday to discuss the impending government shutdown, which will occur if Congress doesn’t pass a spending bill by midnight Friday.
Democrats and some Republicans have refused to vote for a funding bill that does not include legal protections for undocumented young people. Trump ended DACA, a protection from deportation for qualified undocumented young people, on Sept. 5 last year.
How the hell do you negotiate with someone who will change his mind when his little racist boot-lickers whisper in his ear once the door shuts behind you?
I think that’s code for “It’s going to be a long shutdown.” Meanwhile, he’s letting Pelosi be the bad cop.
How do you sit and talk with Trump when you’re engaged with the functional equivalent of an Irish Setter?
Okay, so Donnie didn’t dramatically pull out a new Executive Order restoring DACA - let the shutdown begin.
I don’t want to get too excited, but the Republicans really do seem to be doing their absolute best to break every piece of china is the shop. In light of everything else (and in particular the polling on the loss of support among Independents) I just don’t see how this ends well for them. As my old mom used to say - “It’s going to end in tears…”
Quite possibly. But also quite plausible that they are very close to a deal, but Schumer understands that if he came out and unilaterally announced that a deal was imminent – right after the White House said they definitely weren’t “cutting a deal” with Schumer, and that they would be meeting with others throughout the day – that would likely cause Trump to deny it, and cause the deal to collapse.
Basically impossible to tell from Schumer’s statement whether they’re close or not. But that’s by design. There will be negotiations all day and into the evening.