Democratic lawmakers, both state and federal, remain committed to supporting infanticide.
Funding For Border Wall Left Out By Pelosi In Negotiations With Trump
The latest exchanges between President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi have resolved little as lawmakers have until February 15 to strike a deal before the government could again shut down.
President Trump, Congress Reach Deal To Temporarily Reopen Government With No Wall Funding
On Friday morning in the Rose Garden at the White House, President Donald Trump announced that a “deal has been reached” to reopen the 25 percent of the federal government that has been closed since December 22, 2018. The sudden change in momentum came as major airports are experiencing long delays and over 800,000 federal workers are getting ready to miss a second paycheck.
President Trump pledged to sign a bill on day 35 of the shutdown that would reopen the government for three weeks, until February 15. The funding package, however, will not include any money for the proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall.
On Thursday, Trump relayed to reporters that he would support “a reasonable agreement” to reopen the government as the impasse between the Republican-controlled Senate and the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has reached extreme divisiveness. That same day, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) scheduled votes for two likely failing plans to reopen nine federal agencies.
Under the Republican plan, $5.7 billion would be allocated to building the U.S.-Mexico border wall (or barrier) in “strategic locations” and, per President Trump‘s remarks, provide for a three-year extension of protections for over 700,000 undocumented immigrants shielded from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Trump’s funding request also includes $800 million for humanitarian assistance, $805 million for drug detection technology, 2,750 more border agents and law enforcement officers, and 75 more immigration judges.
Democrats, on the other hand, have continued to work on a package that would ignore the president’s demand for $5.7 billion for a southern border wall and would instead allocate funds for other ideas aimed at protecting the border, what they call a “21st Century plan.” Although the Democratic Party’s border security plan and its costs remain a work in progress, it is said to include money for scanning devices and other advanced technological tools to bolster security at certain ports of entry at the southern border, as well as money for additional border agents and immigration judges.
According to a report from AP, the Senate first rejected the Republican plan, garnering just a 50-47 vote for the measure, 10 shy of the 60 votes needed. Minutes later, senators voted 52-44 for the Democratic alternative, eight shy of the 60 votes needed.
Last night and this morning, at least five Republican Senators called Trump to urge him to reopen the government, having the upper chamber consider his $5.7 billion request for border wall money through different legislation.
With the government set to reopen for the next three weeks, the president added in his speech that a bipartisan contingent of lawmakers from both the House and Senate will meet to develop a border security funding proposal for the Department of Homeland Security.
Senate Set To Vote On Likely Failing Bills To Reopen Federal Government
With day 33 of the partial government shutdown in the books, the Senate has scheduled votes on Thursday in the first attempt of such since federal funding an out at midnight on December 21, 2018. However, funding packages from both parties in power are likely to fail to meet the 60-vote threshold in the Senate to end the impasse, which is under 53-47 Republican control.
Both bills would reopen nine federal agencies and dole out paychecks to 800,000 government employees, but the similarities end there.
Under the Republican plan, $5.7 billion would be allocated to building the U.S.-Mexico border wall (or barrier) in “strategic locations” and, per President Trump‘s remarks, provide for a three-year extension of protections for over 700,000 undocumented immigrants shielded from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Trump’s funding request also includes $800 million for humanitarian assistance, $805 million for drug detection technology, 2,750 more border agents and law enforcement officers, and 75 more immigration judges.
Democrats, on the other hand, have continued to work on a package that would ignore the president’s demand for $5.7 billion for a southern border wall and would instead allocate funds for other ideas aimed at protecting the border, what they call a “21st Century plan.” Although the Democratic Party’s border security plan and its costs remain a work in progress, it is said to include money for scanning devices and other advanced technological tools to bolster security at certain ports of entry at the southern border, as well as money for additional border agents and immigration judges.
Even if the Senate were to pass either plan, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (CA-12) has already scheduled to send the lower chamber home on Friday, ensuring that the shutdown will continue into next week. Moreover, it will fuel more animus in Republicans that the speaker and her party are not as interested as they say in reopening the government and sending hundreds of thousands of people back to work.
Nevertheless, in the consistent fighting between the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives and the Republican president, the State of the Union address next week has been postponed. Trump yielded to the speaker after a week-long showdown that featured the commander in chief cancelling a trip commissioned by Pelosi and a select group of congressional Democrats to Belgium, Egypt, and Afghanistan, calling the “seven-day excursion” an unnecessary “public relations event.”
White House officials have considered a backup plan to have President Trump give the speech at an alternate location if majority Democrats block the House chamber. Regardless, as the length of the shutdown is now unprecedented, Pelosi could break another bureaucratic paradigm as no invitation for the president’s State of the Union address has ever been rescinded.
Trump Rolls Out Plan Teaming Border Wall Funding With DACA Extension
As the partial government shutdown rolls through day 30, President Donald Trump rolled out a plan this weekend that includes funding for the proposed southern border wall, teamed with revitalized protections for certain groups of undocumented immigrants. While the commander in chief’s olive branch was praised by those near the political center, it did draw ire from conservative immigration hard-liners and Democrats, who called the measure a “non-starter.”
The plan includes a three-year extension of protections for over 700,000 undocumented immigrants shielded from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In exchange, $5.7 billion in funding would be dedicated to the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Nevertheless, Trump has backed off of his hundreds of miles of wall request, now proposing only a strategic deployment of steel barriers at high priority locations. His funding request also includes $800 million for humanitarian assistance, $805 million for drug detection technology, 2,750 more border agents and law enforcement officers, and 75 more immigration judges, according to The Hill.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has promised Trump that his package will be brought to the floor of the upper chamber this week.
For the few Republicans and conservative talking heads that called the president’s plan amnesty, he responded to those claims via Twitter.
No, Amnesty is not a part of my offer,” Trump said. “It is a 3 year extension of DACA. Amnesty will be used only on a much bigger deal, whether on immigration or something else.
Regardless, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (CA-14) and Senate Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY) signaled that they would not take up the deal.
Accosting the opposition party and charging them to take the deal to re-open the federal government, the president added, “Nancy Pelosi and some of the Democrats…don’t see crime & drugs, they only see 2020 – which they are not going to win…They should do the right thing for the Country & allow people to go back to work.
Considering congressional Democrats have refused to take up Trump’s plan, they have shown that pride is more important than compromise – even if it means 800,000 federal workers continue to be furloughed as 25 percent of the U.S. government remains closed.
Left-Wing Activists Dream Of Closing One-Third Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2020
How dare you support “dirty coal,” says Nancy Pelosi and Michael Bloomberg. Look at the great work those roiling successes like Solyndra, Abound Solar, First Solar, and A123 Systems did. Closing 500 coal plants – what could possibly go wrong?
Wexton Vows To Punish Families; Raise Taxes If Elected
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has released a new video entitled: “Jennifer Wexton Will Raise Your Taxes.” Built on the foundation of the NRCC’s ad targeting Nancy Pelosi about her proposed “roll back” of the Republican-led Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, it outlines Wexton’s plan of a congressional agenda of big taxes and big government spending.
Even Wexton does not refute the claims; she is completely on board with Pelosi, who claims she will take back the position of speaker if the Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives in November.
People have said she is a quintessential “tax and spend liberal,” a record she has proven in her years in the Virginia State Senate. At a recent appearance, she even said it out loud to the crowd of onlookers, “I’m a tax and spend liberal, right?”
Wexton says that the first thing she will do upon arriving in Washington next year will be to “roll back the tax cuts.” She plans on doing all of this despite the fact that her constituents in Loudoun County will greatly benefit from the federal tax overhaul.
As NRCC spokeswoman Maddie Anderson says, “Self-proclaimed tax and spend liberal Jennifer Wexton is right on message when it comes to walking lock-step with her role model, Nancy Pelosi. If she somehow fumbled her way to Congress, Wexton and Pelosi would be quite the tax-raising dynamic duo.”
As more businesses have dolled out bonuses that number one, two, and three thousand dollars each, raised their minimum wages, and have endeavored on one of the largest hiring sprees in memory, Wexton’s claims of a better America that means higher taxes is without evidence.
The reason why there is record-low unemployment – sitting at a stable 3.8 percent – is because companies are more in control of their profits.
However, in Wexton’s America, people have money shaken out of their pockets by the big liberal bullies who wish nothing more than to gain further control and spend the U.S. into oblivion.
Pelosi And House Democrats Must Battle Economic Reality For 2018 Midterms
Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi signaled at a Tuesday press conference that her opposition party, if they gain control of Congress this November, will be rolling back the Trump tax cuts.
Pelosi’s “Crumbs” Mean Lowest Unemployment Claims Since 1973
For Democrats running on the economy for the 2018 midterm elections, claiming the “crumbs” that came with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act à la Nancy Pelosi have not helped Americans, jobless claims are in for last week, and Americans receiving unemployment aid has dropped to the lowest number since March 1973.
Wexton’s Own Poll Shows 70 Percent Of Dems Not Voting For Her
Meanwhile in VA-10, embattled Democratic State Senator Jenny Wexton (D-Fairfax) is struggling to get support from even 3 in 10 of her own political base.