UPDATED Trump warns of government shutdown over border security
Last edited Sun Jul 29, 2018, 10:10 AM - Edit history (2)
Source: The Hill
BY KYLE BALLUCK - 07/29/18 09:19 AM EDT
President Trump warned on Sunday that he would be willing to "shut down" the government over border security.
Link to tweet
The president in an earlier tweet on Sunday morning said "many" border crossers are using children for "sinister purposes." He also blasted existing U.S. immigration laws and urged followers to vote for Republicans.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/399382-trump-warns-of-government-shutdown-over-border-security
UPDATE:
Trump threatens again to shut down government over border wall, escalating stakes ahead of a Sept. 30 government funding deadline
By Washington Post Staff
July 29 at 10:02 AM
President Trump threatened to shut down the federal government if Congress does not pass sweeping changes to immigration laws, including appropriating more public money to build his long-promised border wall.
"I would be willing to 'shut down' government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall!" Trump tweeted. "Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!"
Trump's threat raises the stakes ahead of a Sept. 30 government funding deadline, a political showdown before the November midterms that Republican congressional leaders had hoped to avoid. The president had previously threatened to shut the government down if Democrats did not agree to fund wall construction but ultimately signed past spending bills.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/29/trump-threatens-again-to-shut-down-government-over-border-wall-escalating-stakes-ahead-of-a-sept-30-government-funding-deadline/
handmade34
(22,756 posts)I can think of one NOT great person (could include the rest of the family, as well) who could leave and make room for others... if we want meritorious people here, #notmypresident should leave
CatMor
(6,212 posts)what has this country come to where the so called president spends his time tweeting and threatening. If that's all a president has to do perhaps we don't need one. I also hate hearing about the ridiculous wall. Enough already.
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)machoneman
(4,006 posts)to throw the bums out!
Biden My Time
(87 posts)Make our FUCKING day!
Turbineguy
(37,313 posts)If you should down the government don't all the border protection people stay home?
Asking for a republican friend.
BumRushDaShow
(128,767 posts)The GOP cherry-picks who are considered "essential personnel" and as a minimum, it's almost always the LEO in DHS (the civilians? not so much).
And then the lazy media runs over to the nearest National Park completely exasperated with a camera and microphone, and points out the barriers being erected with "Closed" signs being tied to them in front of a park entrance, as if they are the only ones who work for the federal government that are being impacted.
2naSalit
(86,515 posts)the image of "...Closed the amusement place and f'ked up your vacation!" so that we can be pissed about that instead. I guess you could call it the "squirrel!" effect.
Stop everything
I think I hear the President
The Pied Piper of the TV screen
Is gonna make it simple
And he's got it all mapped out
And illustrated with cartoons
Too hard for clever folks to understand
They're more used to words like:
Ideology
They're not talkin' 'bout right and left
They're talkin' 'bout
Right and wrong, do you know the difference
Right and wrong, do you know the difference
'Tween the right and the left and the east and the west
What you know and the things that you'll never see
So what ya think
You like the Yankees or the Mets this year
And what about this latest war of words
And what about the Commies
I saw the news last night
All illustrated with cartoons
So when they come with that opinion poll
They better not use words like
Ideology
BumRushDaShow
(128,767 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,661 posts)because the national park she wanted to visit was closed and IT WAS ALL OBAMA'S FAULT!
BumRushDaShow
(128,767 posts)...and forget about Carnival Cruz's "Green Eggs and Ham" serenade on the Senate floor in an attempt to block ACA funding included in the FY14 appropriations, thus helping to lead to the 2013 shutdown (and furlough - because I know *I* was furloughed for those 2 weeks).
HAB911
(8,876 posts)(Trumpian logic)
BumRushDaShow
(128,767 posts)Source: The Hill
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday indicated President Trump is easing up on his demand for border wall funding in the next major government spending bill, a move that would lower the odds of a shutdown in October.
The presidents willing to be patient to make sure that we get what we need so we can that done, Ryan said, adding that funding the wall was "not a question of if, its a question of when."
In May, Trump said he was going to demand that any stopgap measure to keep the government operating past Sept. 30 include funds to secure the border. The tweet was widely seen as a threat that he would veto any continuing resolution (CR), prompting a government shutdown, if the spending measure does not included funding for the border wall.
Ryan and McConnell met with Trump at the White House on Wednesday to discuss their strategy for funding the government. Congress is planning to pass most appropriations bills in batches and then send them to the president for his signature ahead of Sept. 30, the last day of the fiscal year.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/399043-ryan-trump-willing-to-be-patient-on-wall-funding
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142119725
My response? -
4. Give him 24 - 48 hours
(and Miller whispering in his ear) and he'll change his mind.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142119725#post4
And soon as they recessed Friday for the month of August - VOILA!!!!!1111!!!!
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And his boss who is giving him his orders, putin
Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)hold his breath until he turns blue?
llmart
(15,536 posts)he'd hold his breath until he expires. Now THAT would be a blessing.
BumRushDaShow
(128,767 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)trump's OWN party doesn't have the votes to give him what he wants
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Harker
(14,010 posts)who he means by "great people" and what he means by "merit."
theaocp
(4,235 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)He appoints ultra-con judges.
If we and the media boycotted or mostly ignored his tweets and yo-yo sound bites, he'd lose his most effective tool.
tRump's base hears the hard-right crap and the wobbly part of the middle hears his dial-backs.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Please.
sanatanadharma
(3,695 posts)and he offers stuff to those terrorists
Nice way to honor the blood, limbs and lives of the servicewomen of the USA
pazzyanne
(6,546 posts)Oh, that's right, we are talking about tRump logic here aren't we. Can't get your way, up the bully tactics. Got it.
forgotmylogin
(7,524 posts)This is not how Government works.
You don't take your ball and go home when you don't get your way.
If your thing is not the will of the people (or the congresscritters representing them) you take the hint and compromise, or demur.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)dalton99a
(81,433 posts)Did he need Democratic votes to pass his tax scam?
onecaliberal
(32,816 posts)appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)As far as I know, Democrats in Washington have very little impact on Mexican government financial legislation.
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NCjack
(10,279 posts)likelihood of the DEMs gaining control of the Senate in 2018. Please. Stop the threats and do it !!!
Squinch
(50,935 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)would be to shut down this farce that some choose to call "government" in America.
briv1016
(1,570 posts)Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)Nitram
(22,781 posts)Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)I read the posts. Why am I, as far as I know, the only one that knows that Mexicans own boats?
Joe Bacon
(5,164 posts)Do it, Tweety Amin!
Shut the Government down right before the election.
Shut it down completely and stop people from getting their benefit checks!
And do ignore all those howls from your base when you cut their cash off!
Progressive dog
(6,900 posts)it's on a brand new prison for that Putin puppet.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Ted Cruz did to shut down the government. That didn't go so well for Cruz as he's battling for his political life now in Texas. People hate him and knows anyone who lies as much as he does is probably very corrupt also. They both are lying con men, and a President threatening to hurt the USA and its people shows he's not putting America first at all, he's putting trump first, and always will.
jmowreader
(50,552 posts)Make sure you stop the Social Security checks of the segment of the American people who votes in the greatest percentage, and keep those checks locked up until after the election. Yeah, thatll show those damn Democrats who wont give you your wall!