Pelosi hints Dems will play hardball to protect Dreamers

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY MIKE LILLIS - 10/09/17 06:00 PM EDT

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Monday wouldn't rule out withholding support for end-of-the-year budget bills — and risk a government shutdown — if President Trump and the Republicans don’t agree to protections for undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.

“We have to do it before Christmas, that’s just the way it is,” she said Monday in an interview with The Washington Post.

Yet Pelosi acknowledged that the Democrats’ strategy is far from decided, and there are internal disagreements about the wisdom of showing their hand months ahead of December’s budget fight.

“We’re not at that place yet,” she said. “Right now, we’re trying to get Republicans to vote on what we believe.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/354626-pelosi-hints-dems-will-play-hardball-to-protect-dreamers

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Is there any chance........

someone might want to protect the UNITED STATES from a nuclear attack from North Korea?

Isn't ANYONE interested in some dialog or diplomacy with ANY foreign government regarding the simple concept of keeping the world free of nuclear aggression?

Doesn't that make us ALL "dreamers?"

[Calista241]

2. unfortunately, the cards are on Trump's side.

deportation will start early next year, and unless they want to see that, they'll have to deal with the Orange menace.

[Gothmog]

3. The GOP needs Democratic votes to pass anything and so need to be nice to Democrats

Pelosi can block a number of things due to the fact that the GOP cannot count on the Freedom Caucus doe vote to keep the govt. open