With just two days before the United States government runs out of money, and President Donald Trump feuding with Democrats over immigration, Republican congressional leaders were left scrambling Wednesday to avoid a federal shutdown.
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However, Trump did just that, ending the program in September 2017.
“I think the President is encouraging us to go as quickly as we can”, answered Secretary Nielsen, who said Mr. Trump also wanted to close a variety of loopholes in immigration law, to dissuade people to come to the USA illegally.
While longer-term spending negotiations were still ongoing, Democrats have dug in their heels and demanded that no spending caps be agreed to until there is a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which expires on March 5. “No more Lotteries! #AMERICA FIRST”. His comments followed four tweets on the same topic on Saturday. The Trump-state Democrats, whose votes are needed to keep the government open, could pay a big political price for a shutdown.
Keep in mind on this: Should House Republicans pass their short-term spending bill, it’s a very, very tough vote for Senate Democrats.
“Not that I am aware of”, Nielsen said, when Graham asked if Trump was considering an executive order to extend DACA. “We need to do a DACA deal”.
Democrats have always been pushing to secure a deal for the Obama-era program DACA. “I think that would show real leadership”, she said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“If this is a suburban revolution, and everything we saw a year ago keeps happening with Democrats over-performing, Katie bar the door in November”, Maslin said.
Most Democrats are vowing to oppose the bill.
Rank-and-file Republicans seem to like the deal and are hoping for a vote on Thursday, just ahead of the Friday deadline.
“If it’s shut down over immigration, the Democrats take the brunt of that”, said Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. “The Democrats are negotiating in good faith”.
Trump has denied making the remarks, but Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Perdue attended the meeting and called the comments as reported “a gross misrepresentation”.
Durbin has stood by his claim.
“I don’t know how this movie ends”, Graham admitted. The senator, who suffered broken ribs at the hands of a blindside attack by a neighbor previous year, said every other comment from leftists responding to a tweet about his volunteer medical mission to Haiti and Central America expressed a desire for more violence.
While undocumented immigrants and their allies continue to organize against the racist Trump administration and complicit Republican leaders, Democratic leaders, who depend on the Latina/o vote, have failed miserably.
Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, told reporters he was personally “fed up” with short-term funding measures and would not vote for it. “They said those words were used before those words went public”, Flake said. Former Republican Rep. Sheila Harsdorf held the seat from 2001 until November when she resigned to become Walker’s agriculture secretary.
“I don’t recall that specific phrase being used”, she responded. “DACA is probably dead”, he said in a Twitter post Sunday.
“The worst thing that can happen right now is for there not to be a fix at all”, Love said on “State of the Union”.
Earlier in the hearing, Nielsen had said she wanted to “move forward” from discussion of the language in the meeting after being quizzed by multiple senators.
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Given that, Democrats are justified in playing hardball on getting an agreement on DACA as part of the debate to avoid a government shutdown by Friday. He is planning a meeting Wednesday with Texas Republican Sen.
