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Nope. The Congress is under no obligation to fund whatever the president asks for.my friends, Democrats are focused on pocketbook kitchen table issues like health care and improving infrastructure, hopefully they can end this shutdown, let Mueller be Mueller, and it'll all work out.
they ought not pay a 5 billion dollar ransom note to Trump, who is trying to fool the american people on destroying the constitution in order to fulfill a campaign promise that the great dealmaker failed to get mexico to pay for it
Pelosi already fucked that up.
She took away a main dem talking point at the last meeting.
When Trump asked her, if he opened the Government back-up with
the piece meal CR's. Would he get the money for the wall in February.
The Stupid Bitch said "No!"
That destroyed their talking point of reopening the other Govt agencies
and continuing with discussions on Homeland Security.
They said the other agencies were not involved. Well, her "No" took
future Homeland Security negotiations off the table. There isn't going
to be any wall. The Government will stay shut.
Now the dems are going to have to figure out how to save face before
they have to fund the wall.
Everyday that the shutdown continues the blame spreads out to include the
Dems. Per the norm the Dems have overplayed their hand.
Pelosi isn't the one who walked out of the negotiations. Trump could have asked what she would be prepared to offer but he didn't.
Trump is not getting a wall unless and until he provides a case to the American people justifying the expense, like every other President does. Unless and until the President studies other options and proves why his wall will be worth the expense.
Thirdly, Trump just lost the House, and he lost it as a referendum on his policies. The American voter resoundly rejected both the Trump Presidency and the Republican Party's support of it, and they did so at the ballot box. Nancy Pelosi is the embodiment of the Americans voters' wishes and intentions.
Every day the shutdown continues, the American public is blaming the guy who walked out of the negotiations. The guy who has twice agreed to funding for his wall and then cancelled the deal, and who is now, single handedly refusing to sign the bills on his desk to re-open the government. Donald J. Trump.
What negotiations?
The sticking point is the wall. When she said "No!" to money for the
wall...the negotiations ended.
The Dems are going to be forced to cave in this fight.
Trump said Mexico would pay for it ... let him collect a payment from them.