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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSchumer withdraws offer on Trump's wall
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2018/01/23/chuck-schumer-trump-wall-offer-359156?__twitter_impression=true
Schumer withdraws offer on Trump's wall
Republicans aligned with Trump are unlikely to go for any bill that does not offer a major boost in border wall funding.
By BURGESS EVERETT and SEUNG MIN KIM
01/23/2018 12:09 PM EST
Chuck Schumer is taking his big spending boost for Donald Trumps border wall off the table.
The Senate minority leader, through an aide, informed the White House on Monday that he was retracting the offer he made last week to give Trump well north of the $1.6 billion in wall funding Trump had asked for this year, according to two Democrats. And now they say Trump will simply not get a better deal than that on his signature campaign promise.
Schumer took it off, said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat. He called the White House yesterday and said its over.
In the now-infamous cheeseburger summit last Friday with Trump, Schumer offered a large increase in border wall spending as a condition for a broader deal to help Dreamers. But after that offer was rebuffed prompting the three-day government shutdown the president has now missed an opportunity to get the wall, one Democratic aide said.
Some key Republicans including Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, a key GOP immigration negotiator had already considered using the promise of border wall funding totaling more than $1.6 billion to lure more conservative votes. A Dreamer plan written by a bipartisan group of six senators, including Flake, had included Trumps $1.6 billion request as part of a broader, $2.7 billion border security package.
Sen. Schumers already indicated that he would go for more. Republicans will go for more, Flake said. Its just how much more we can get from the Democrats.
Republicans aligned with Trump are unlikely to go for any bill that does not offer a major boost in border wall funding, given the presidents strong feelings about the issue. Moreover, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said he was skeptical of Schumers recollection of the meeting and the border wall offer anyway.
They claim that some crazy deal was made, Cotton said of Democrats. And then when we say no deal was made, they accuse Republicans and the president of reneging.
But providing border wall money could also push away more liberal Democrats, who prefer to completely restart negotiations rather than start from any existing bill, even a bipartisan one like the proposal written by Durbin and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
Discussions were had coming up to Friday night are interesting for context, said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). But now, he said, we start from a blank sheet of paper.
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Schumer withdraws offer on Trump's wall (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2018
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Anny61
(100 posts)1. We have CHIPS, DACA back up in a couple weeks and put the wall back on the table.
GeorgeGist
(25,324 posts)2. Whose NO is bigger?
Gothmog
(145,666 posts)3. This was a great move by Senator Schumer