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What is silly is Democrats were screaming that people would die from the 2013 government shutdown.
Democrats are saying that it is worth killing Americans over this.
Feinstein (D) has already admitted that she stands by her position that shutdowns kill US citizens, but it is worth it to her.
The fact that these people cause this shutdown tells me that they are more concerned with getting their way, than they are about America. Of course, I already knew that.
The only plus I see is that this will help the GOP in the 2018 midterms and can be used as a reminder in the 2020 election where Trump should see little opposition, so they are exchanging the dream of making illegal aliens legal for political seats. We all make choices, many of which come back to bite us in the butt in the future, the Democrats excel in this!
Yeah. who cares about the military grunts getting paid for protecting this country when the important issue preventing them from buying groceries for their kids is keeping illegal aliens in the USA?
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democrats sure know how to negotiate a federal budget bill! throwing in immigration reform as a mandatory issue makes immense sense.
You do realize the Republicans control the house. You do realize they are causing just as many issues. Why you insist on creating so many division threads is beyond me...
It already passed thru the House, it is being held up by the Senate. The Dems have blocked it. (second link)
If the Democrats, specifically Schumer/Pelosi want to absolutely remove any/all question about the Democrats being responsible for the shutdown all they have to do is remove any/all immigration issues from the funding bill.
Come out and publicly state "we are prepared to vote on a clean funding bill to end the shutdown".
Schumer and Pelosi are causing the people to be without a paycheck after Pelosi already mentioned that $1000 tax deductions are crums.
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They had a chance to take care of all these issues earlier. The Democrats suggested a clean DACA bill and the Republicans would not allow such a bill to come to the floor. Why, you ask? Because they wanted to use it as leverage against the Democrats and they knew if the DACA bill would be allowed to come to a vote it would have passed easily in both houses.
This is such a transparent abuse by the Republicans, that Kevin McCarthy is seen interrupting Trump on video at a recent meeting. McCarthy didn't want Trump spoiling their political shenanigans.
This is the last chance for the Democrats to try to impose their will over the immigration issue. If the funding for the government is turned back on before the immigration issue (and DACA) is addressed, the compromise that eventually is produced will be a disaster for the Democrats.
In such a deal, DACA will be approved, which is what the Republicans are giving, and the wall will be at least partially built, border security measures will be strengthened, chain migration will be brought to a permanent halt and going forward, immigration will be merit based, rather than lottery based. Also, there will be no path to citizenship for those currently here illegally.
Trump will be able to claim success for immigration reform, for the first time in 30 years.
It will be regarded as a success and a fulfillment of Trump's campaign pledges on this issue by his supporters, and by most Americans. Even the Democrats will be somewhat mollified in that they will be able to claim success on DACA.
But it is chain migration, border security and merit based immigration policy that is what is really important here, and the Democrats will be forced to eat it from the hands of President Trump if they stand down on the shutdown, which they eventually will.
They had a chance to take care of all these issues earlier. The Democrats suggested a clean DACA bill and the Republicans would not allow such a bill to come to the floor. Why, you ask? Because they wanted to use it as leverage against the Democrats and they knew if the DACA bill would be allowed to come to a vote it would have passed easily in both houses.
This is such a transparent abuse by the Republicans, that Kevin McCarthy is seen interrupting Trump on video at a recent meeting. McCarthy didn't want Trump spoiling their political shenanigans.
No matter how you spin it, democrats are shutting down the government, which is negatively affecting citizens, because of non-citizens.
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