Federal workers are supposed to go back to work Wednesday. President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders are barely communicating. The shutdown’s end is nowhere in sight.
According to a Wednesday Politico report, congressional leaders worry that the current standoff points to a shutdown even longer than anticipated — possibly into mid-January.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), once she becomes House speaker January 3, reportedly plans to force through a spending bill that omits Trump’s wall money, though Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has not yet said whether he’d let such a bill to the floor for a vote.
8 more days and the Democrats resume majority in the House of Congress. Most of America eagerly await this.
The current status is untenable if our nation is to survive l’affair trump.
Seems to me that if the House passes a spending bill and McConnell refuses to bring it to the Senate floor for a vote then it is the GOP that is keeping the government shut down. Wonder how Fox, et al, will spin that one.
I don’t remember the “take your rattle and go back to your crib” chapter from The Art of the Deal. Maybe they added that in a second edition.
Instead of negotiating with his shadow, he should be calling Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter begging them to give him a break when he folds.
I’ve read that they’ve only spent 6% of the money allocated for border security. Perhaps the bill should address that. If it is true (and I have no idea if it is), then it should become part of the conversation.