The government shutdown is over: Trump Signs Spending Bill, Ending Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History.
President Trump reached a deal with congressional leaders Friday to reopen the government for three weeks despite getting no new funding for a border wall, setting the stage for whirlwind talks to bridge deep disagreements between Democrats and Republicans on immigration policy.
The bill, which includes an extension of border-security funding at current levels, was quickly passed by the Senate and House and was signed into law by the president late Friday. The short-term deal provides financial relief for about 800,000 federal workers, who have been furloughed or on the job without pay for more than a month and missed another paycheck Friday.
The reopening also eases pressures on the airline industry, which was grappling with staffing shortfalls in airport security and air-traffic control, culminating in delays at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and other major airports Friday. It could speed tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service, and restart other government functions related to small business loans, initial public offerings and infrastructure projects, among others.
Announcing the pact in a speech from the Rose Garden, Mr. Trump said he would start negotiations between the House and Senate over a full-year bill funding the Homeland Security Department, which oversees the border.
“After 36 days of spirited debate and dialogue, I have seen and heard from enough Democrats and Republicans that they are willing to put partisanship aside, I think,” Mr. Trump said.
The deal Mr. Trump announced marks a retreat from the hard-line stance he had taken throughout the shutdown, which began Dec. 22 over a clash between the president and Democrats over whether to fund a border wall. Mr. Trump says the wall is key to national security, while Democrats say it is unnecessary.
“We’ll work with the Democrats and negotiate and if we can’t do that, then we’ll do a—obviously we’ll do the [national] emergency because that’s what it is. It’s a national emergency,” he told reporters later.
Translation
Trump was totally and thoroughly humiliated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
That statement is not partisan politics. Rather, Trump Mocked From Both Sides After Caving In, Coulter Claims “Biggest Wimp Ever”
Trump had two years to negotiate a good deal. He got nothing despite the fact that a year ago, Democrats agreed to fund the wall to the tuned of $20 billion dollars.
Pathetic.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Unlike Mish, I give The Donald credit for being pragmatic and doing his America First thing by getting government working again, while doing an endrun around Crazy Nancy and Chuck the Schmuck by promising to do even more funding for The Wall if they don’t come to an agreement. I doubt they will, their main reason for existence is to make trouble for Trump, and they do not care that that is also trouble for the nation. Trump haters say his ego is overblown; this proves the opposite, although TDS sufferers will never admit it.
Trump faced a crossroads between Hoover and Kennedy? Chose to be Herbert Hoover Redux.
It’s amusing watching people try to spin this as anything but the epic failure of an incompetent con man trying to delay the beginning of his life in prison.
Nobody’s buying it but the cultists.
Behold the full-blown case of Trump Derangement Syndrome of Zardoz.
What are you going to say when Mueller has nothing? Weep, child.
“President Trump caved in by signing a stopgap measure that included no wall funding.”
That’s what I thought yesterday but here is what Trump said:
“If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shutdown on February 15th again or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency.”
Trump will most likely get his wall funded. There will be some concessions about DACA green cards and other things that Dems want. That’s why they needed time. In the end, both sides will claim they got what they wanted.
This looks more a face-saving for Pelosi than a cave-in from Trump. He has given her cover.
Mish should keep to finance as his liberal bent to everything political makes his opinion foolish.
Then you don’t need a wall, and we’re already spending $25-30B/year enforcing immigration laws. That’s more than we spend enforcing every other federal law combined. How much $$$ is enough?
And US taxpayers spend $115 billion/year (net after taxes paid by illegals are factored) on the cost of welfare/freebies for illegals.
Now see if you can do some ROI calculations.
rejoice i say,finally the largest bankrupt,money printing banana republic in history (ever)can resume handin out endless streams of gov’t checks to impoverished,homeless gov’t dependent masses
Free Sh*t Army (FSA) votes don’t come cheap.
Mish,
You keep harping on “Democrats agreed to fund the wall to the tuned of $20 billion dollars” meme and you keep leaving important details out:
I keep wonder why you keep making this argument leaving these details out. Do you run your financial business the same way?
Do you want a wall or not?
I want to fully enforce existing Federal immigration laws.
Where are you seeing this 10 million more number? Thanks
What is Chain Migration?
“In 2015, the United States granted 1,051,031 immigrants lawful permanent resident status.
Under the United States’ current immigration system, most migrants receive a green card simply because they are the relative of an earlier migrant, not because of what they can contribute to American society. This creates a “chain” of immigrants who can then sponsor other immigrants in the same manner. These, in turn, may sponsor more immigrants, and so on.”
Thanks
If democrats had any sense, they’d take this opportunity to propose expanding existing walls around existing known entry points, massively expanding border security, and fixing and making mandatory E-Verify, all paid for by increasing the corporate tax rate. Trump and the Republicans would never accept it and it would shut down further discussion for a decade. But these are democrats.