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Quote:Democrats Warn of Showdown Over Trump’s Border Wall

Senate Democrats are warning Republicans of a shutdown showdown if President Donald Trump insists on including funding for a wall along the Mexican border in April’s government funding bill.

“We believe it would be inappropriate to insist on the inclusion of such funding in a must-pass appropriations bill that is needed for the Republican majority in control of the Congress to avert a government shutdown so early in President Trump’s Administration,” the Senate Democratic leadership team, along with Appropriations ranking Democrat Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, wrote in a letter to be circulated Monday.

The letter was directed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran, R-Miss., but the clear audience was the Trump administration and the new president himself.
An early copy of the letter was obtained by CQ Roll Call.

Led by Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York, the Democrats outline familiar concerns about the wall, which was a key campaign promise of the president. That includes the argument that the wall itself may not deter illegal immigration from Mexico.

They say there has been no plan for construction or for how to get Mexico to fund the wall, as Trump had insisted throughout the campaign.

Aside from that obvious flash point, the Democratic senators are continuing to hold the position that they had under President Barack Obama that any increases in spending above existing caps for non-emergency spending should be equally divided between defense and non-defense accounts.

Senate appropriators in both parties have already grown wary of the prospects that discretionary funding past the end of April for most or all of the budget could be completed through a continuing resolution rather than with an omnibus spending package that reflects the work of members of the Appropriations Committee.

Democrats say they want all of the 12 remaining spending bills to be completed, but even with their reduced leverage with Trump having replaced Obama in the White House, they still indicate opposition to what they consider to be noxious policy riders.

“They should not include poison pill riders such as those that roll back protections for our veterans, environment, consumers, and workers and prohibit funds for critical healthcare services for women through Planned Parenthood,” the Democrats wrote. “We strongly oppose the inclusion of such riders in any of the must-pass appropriations bills that fund the government.”

Source: http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/de...order-wall

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Why does my diabolical Machiavelli brain think these things up... Get black pigeon speaks to do an SJW inspirational video promo based on the I Am Spartacus theme... Print up masks of Whorehay Ramos and Hayzus Christ. Along with placards exclaiming "I am Gorge and I am with Jesus ... we are humans not illegals... And various other FEELZIE SJW sloganeering... Get them all pumped on social feeelz media to Occupy Trump Borders OTBs and set up their Soros funded NGO relief food water and meds stations on the Mexican side ... While Trump's contractors build the big beautiful tall Trump wall with biometric sensors...

No biometric verification then no return like Charlie on the MTA... Of course the OTBs will be too busy with their open borders relief camps and too Hillary snobbish to bother with passports... We get a few million to volunteer for the Save the Migrants relief camps and viola.... The wall contractors build this so fast that the SJWs, OTBs and their pet eeeilleegales are forever stuck on the Mexicali side of the border. problem and solution

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A show down and a government shutdown to boot.

Trump has offered the democrats an olive branch multiple times and it has been thrown away each and every time.

The more he gets pushed against the wall, the more he builds the case against them.

Let's see some more vault7 leaks pretty please!

In short:

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I'm looking forward to Donald trolling the race-baiters by pointing out how many legal immigrants and blacks got good paying jobs building the wall.

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Companies involved in construction are already being given information relating to bids for the wall. They're also edgy about the response it will have to be associated with such a project.

Any company that will be involved must have measures to secure its property and employee's. There will be a tremendous backlash.

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Ah yes, because shutting the government down worked so well for the Republicans when Bill Clinton was in office.

God save us from people who mean well. -storm

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This belongs in the Civil Unrest thread.

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The snowflakes are going to be all over the wall construction efforts. I predict they'll:

- Vandalize construction equipment
- Physically block construction sites
- Join work crews and attempt to expose employee work regulations and OSHA violations
- Threaten construction company employees and their families
- Continually take the contractors to court, both civil and criminal
- Physically assault construction crews

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(03-13-2017 07:44 PM)Paracelsus Wrote:  Ah yes, because shutting the government down worked so well for the Republicans when Bill Clinton was in office.

That was before Trump. Bill Clinton when he was president said that they were only a couple of days from capitulating when word arrived from republicans that they surrendered.
Same happened during Obama's reign.

With Trump providing the backbone and balls to the republicans, that may change, even if he has to drag them to victory kicking and screaming.

Though, a word of caution--they don't call republicans the stupid party for nothing...

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If only we could build the wall with all the Dems who oppose it. Just throw their bodies in the wall and pour concrete over them. With all the money saved on materials and time saved not dealing with protesters, It's guaranteed to be under budget and ahead of schedule!

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I still don't understand what the argument is against a border wall. We know the real reason, illegals vote democrat.

Is it "racism?"

Cool, build one to the north as well, they are importing terrorists by the hundreds of thousands up there anyway.

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The Democrats are going to get their asses kicked over this. They will pay for their antics in 2018.

Post: #14

Let them. The shutdown in 2013 was unpopular. This will be even more so, especially if it's over the wall which is a nice big visual thing (in contrast to "Obamacare" in 2013) that the overwhelming majority of the population supports. Trump has all the leverage. 60+ seats in the Senate look good unless the GOP fucks up on this health care bill (a real possibility).