House Budget chair: Border funding in exchange for Dreamers' protections 'an easy deal to make'
Source: The Hill
New House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) said on Friday that some amount of money for border security in exchange for legal protections for Dreamers, or recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, could be the way to agreement for Democrats and Republicans to end the ongoing partial government shutdown.
"There's a lot of pride right now that's probably adversely affecting a settlement on both sides, and nobody wants to cave," Yarmuth told Hill.TV's Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball on "Rising."
"But I think a deal where there's at least temporary working permits for Dreamers for several years, that kind of a relationship if you're not going to solve the Dreamer problem for us, some amount of money for border security is an easy deal to make," he continued.
Yarmuth's comments come as Democrats and Republicans dig their heels in on the issue of President Trump's proposed border wall as the partial government shutdown nears the end of its second week.
Read more: https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/423897-budget-chairman-says-he-could-see-a-deal-with-some-border-security-funding-work
pecosbob
(7,541 posts)No negotiating with terrorists...
Dems should begin calling this a lame-duck administration and refuse any and all enticements...
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)...rather than a formal argument, fully sourced, fully cited and fully foot-noted.
pecosbob
(7,541 posts)which I have not yet been able find, yes...screw The Hill. If they say it's raining and I see rain outside my window, I'm going to go outside and look on my roof and make sure someone's not up there with a water hose. They twist and manipulate everything that they publish.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)pecosbob
(7,541 posts)they selectively quote and misquote anything they can find to divide Dems. They're simply an undercover Drudge Report.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)"SEE! I told you! I told you!" Gotta wonder why you haven't done that don't ya think?
pecosbob
(7,541 posts)to this point only this site and the Hill have published anything about it. As I said before, they have become notorious for selective quotes out of context and spin. They ran a story the other day twisting Warren's interview on Maddow into a call for party purity, intentionally misrepresenting what Warren actually said.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)msongs
(67,420 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,130 posts)and teabagger whispering made sure the attempts were rejected.
The media, like the GOP idiocy that they gladly prop up, have short memories and short attention spans.
durablend
(7,462 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,130 posts)and it's not just "The Hill". It's the usual suspects like "Politco" too. And last year when this came up, even "The Atlantic" joined in.
These are the media types who encourage people to just succumb to bullying. They are the types who would blame the child who has had enough... spitting out their abject scorn of those who refuse to be pummeled anymore and finally hits the bully back.
I can imagine them a hundred years ago demanding that black folk should just let KKK scum drag them through the streets to be hung after being beat and burned, because the KKK's feelings would be hurt if their actions are resisted.
apnu
(8,758 posts)They have lost the ability to negotiate a deal decades ago. They've trained their voting block that compromise is bad, everything is "my way or the highway" with the GOP now. Compromise has become the 3rd rail for Republicans. If they wanted to have a swap, they can't. Such is the trap of single party thinking. Republicans only have themselves to blame for this mess.