Nancy Pelosi is expected to regain House Speaker on Thursday. At that time, Democrats Lay Out Plan to Reopen Government, but it will not contain wall funding.
House Democrats said they will try to reopen the government when they take control of the chamber on Thursday with a spending package aimed at isolating the fight over border-wall funding.
Democrats, who had been debating what package of spending bills to bring to the floor this week, settled on Monday on a plan to pass six full-year spending bills that would fund most of the government through September 2019. They also included a short-term patch extending current funding through Feb. 8 for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the border, in the legislation unveiled Monday evening.
The Democrats’ goal is to end the partial government shutdown, now in its 10th day, while focusing the debate on the border-wall funding in February. Mrs. Pelosi has been in frequent communication with Mr. Schumer during the negotiations, according to aides.
Wheels and Walls Never Get Better
Deadlocked Positions
- Trump will not sign a bill unless it funds the wall.
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not sponsor a bill that funds the wall
- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the “Senate is not going to send something to the President that he won’t sign.”
What’s the Wall Resolution?
- Democrats agree to wall funding or partial funding enough to satisfy Trump.
- Senate caves and passes something that Trump angrily signs.
- Senate caves, Trump does not sign, Congress overrides veto.
- Trump builds the wall without funding.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Why is it only the democrats resisting this moronic boondoggle?
Why not stage a false flag attack on the border and then have Trump issue an executive order to build the wall? Pour some chlorine near the border and hose down some kids.
Trump’s on the phone. He needs a new Chief of Staff. You qualify!
Someone tell Trump that the solution is a Star Trek type force field along the border as a wall. He should get his space force working on it pronto!
The U.S.A. can totally reverse all trade deficits if the prevailing hourly wage was $2.00, but I don’t wish to give the Republican’s any ideas.
I am quite certain that our President is doing very well with the new tax code and corporations were already posting record profits. I am not jealous, just disgusted by the hypocrisy.
If the Republicans had chosen to pursue funding for the wall first instead of a tax plan that gave billions back to the people who don’t need it, the money would already be there for the wall.,,, which speaks volumes about the Republicans priorities!!
I honestly don’t understand why you wouldnt want a wall? There’s another caravan forming right now from what I’ve read. We have too many people now. If you’re against it then they can all squat in your area. Open borders are for idiots.
I understand your concern but here’s the deal. I spent the last week researching this topic in depth, and IMO, a wall cannot possibly accomplish what people wish it would.
There is no effective way to monitor 1,966 miles of wall that wouldn’t cost a trillion dollars to implement. There is no cheap way to build that kind of wall either. I looked at all 8 prototypes which are sitting along the border near San Diego. The Border Patrol prefers the two with the “prison bar” lower sections so they can see what is happening on the other side. They are 30 feet high. I can get a climbing rope over either of those two and have it anchored in under 60 seconds. I practiced on 31-foot high branch on my walnut tree. With no branches in the way, I could have a climbing rope over the wall and anchored in place in 30 seconds. Once a climbing rope is anchored, the sky is the limit as to what kinds of equipment you can raise up using that rope, equipment that would be used to get inexperienced climbers up and over in less than a minute each. I’d post the details if I had the space. I can also get over the other six prototypes but it will take a few minutes longer. They won’t work near the big cities where there is triple fencing, ground sensors, radar, and all kinds of other electronic monitoring eqjuipment. But it is too costly to provide that level of security across the entire 2,000 mile long border. Even if they could, it will be pointless as I point out in the next paragraph.
Please do some googling, and you’ll see that most of the illegals and most of the drugs come here via legal methods. Most illegals come by visa and overstay their visa. Others sneak across the border at legitimate crossings hidden in trucks and vehicles. Others bribe their way across. Drugs are hidden in legal shipments in trucks, trains and cargo containers or simply mailed. The small percentage of drugs that do come over the walls and fences come by catapult, trebuchet, air cannons, ultralights, small planes, etc. A wall is just not going to keep drugs or people out. Where there’s a wall, there’s a way.
The caravan mobs you are seeing on the news are just for show. Any illegals wanting to truly come to the US to work, hire “coyotes” to get them safely across. They don’t storm the border in broad daylight, like the caravans you are seeing. Those people are too poor to hire a coyote and will never get across.
As I mentioned in a previous post, nobody in Washington wants to solve this “problem” that you refer to because very few of them see it as a “problem”. If they did, they would give businesses and welfare offices 30-day’s notice to have an e-verify machine in their office by the end of the month and anyone caught hiring workers or giving welfare to those who could not e-verify would face stiff fines. But that is never going to happen.
The idea of a wall is merely to pacify Americans who haven’t researched both sides of the issue well enough or answered the glaring question of why those SOB’s in Washington aren’t doing to obvious thing like E-verify at all places of employment and welfare offices. If you take away the incentive for illegals to come here, we won’t need what fencing and wall we already have in place.
Excellent post! You should email it to CNN/MSNBC, etc.
There’s the matter of the hundreds of thousands of acres of private land that will be chopped off onto the Mexican side of the wall. Land without a country and useless to the current owners. Then there’s the fact the the Rio Grande river will be on the Mexican side of the wall and unreachable to any Americans to fish, boat, or water their cattle. Then there’s the whole thing about “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free”, which we used to stand for.
As I have commented previously look north. Numerous persons are entering the USA illegally via Canada
And sailing/floating/swimming in via the coasts!
Question: Does the wall in Israel decrease terrorist attacks on civilians or not? If we can design, build and monitor a wall that is good enough to stop illegal immigration, human and drug trafficking, why would we not want to do it?
You’d better hope not. Otherwise you’ll have to ask yourself why so many overtly pro-Israel groups (neocons and others) here much prefer open US borders. That line of questioning could be very uncomfortable for you.
why would we not want to do it?
Cost / Benefit tradeoff . . . there are a LOT of things the US can do but chooses not to because the costs are to large compared to the benefits realized . . . arguably the benefits of stopping a mass terror attack are much larger than stopping some drug traffickers or would be illegal immigrant, on the other hand the costs of building a wall along the mexican border are immense and not just the monetary ones . . . have you actually looked at the border were the wall will be built, the middle of the Rio Grande is not a prime place to build anything . . . you can’t build on the flood plane either SO are we just going to in effect cede that to Mexico? And that’s only ONE problem, obvious others native american sovereignty and owners with land on both sides of the border . . . all go to the costs . . .
Can the Democratics pursue impeachment while the government is shut down?
#3. DO NOT CAVE, Dems!
Do not worry they will…..