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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:32 PM Jan 2019

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

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pecosbob

(7,541 posts)
1. Screw The Hill
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:35 PM
Jan 2019

No negotiating with terrorists...

Dems should begin calling this a lame-duck administration and refuse any and all enticements...

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
3. Often difficult to realize visceral reactions are usually just that...
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:40 PM
Jan 2019

...rather than a formal argument, fully sourced, fully cited and fully foot-noted.

pecosbob

(7,541 posts)
4. Until I can find the quote from a reputable source
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:43 PM
Jan 2019

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.

pecosbob

(7,541 posts)
8. Jump on me if you like, but they've become the mainline for injecting RWTPs into Dem circles
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:52 PM
Jan 2019

they selectively quote and misquote anything they can find to divide Dems. They're simply an undercover Drudge Report.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
11. I notice you haven't gone over to listen to the Congressman so you might run back here to say...
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:59 PM
Jan 2019

"SEE! I told you! I told you!" Gotta wonder why you haven't done that don't ya think?

pecosbob

(7,541 posts)
12. I am still searching for any other outlet that has this story...
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:03 PM
Jan 2019

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.

BumRushDaShow

(129,130 posts)
7. That type of thing was already offered multiple times a year ago
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:51 PM
Jan 2019

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.

BumRushDaShow

(129,130 posts)
14. Basically.
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 03:34 PM
Jan 2019

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)
10. Won't happen. Republicans, today, are incapable of making a deal.
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:55 PM
Jan 2019

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.

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