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Home Front: Politix
Schumer: 'Good for country' if Trump punts on border wall fight
2017-04-25
[The Hill] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Monday night that government funding negotiations can continue, after President Trump appeared open to delaying a fight over the border wall until the fall.

"It's good for the country that President Trump is taking the wall off the table in these negotiations. Now the bipartisan and bicameral negotiators can continue working on the outstanding issues," Schumer said in a statement.

The administration's push for border wall money had stalled negotiations over the fiscal 2017 funding bill that lawmakers have to pass by Friday to avoid a government shutdown.

But Trump told a group of conservative journalists that he would be OK with getting funding for the U.S.-Mexico wall as part of the fiscal 2018 spending bill that will be passed later this year.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Which country?
Posted by: Airandee   2017-04-25 13:25  

#7  Is it just me? Every time Chucky opens his cock-hole, the desire do something horribly violent keeps rising.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-04-25 12:48  

#6  Either the will of the people is obeyed(border enforcement is overwhelmingly supported) by our elected representatives, or they lose the consent of the governed. The defeat of the signature promise of the Trump administration will be seen, rightly, as proof that Washington governs for the benefit of the elites, and that illegal immigration is the cornerstone of the democrat party strategy for a socialist future. You cannot let this happen or all credibility will evaporate.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-04-25 11:30  

#5  I'm really waiting to hear Amy Schumer's opinion before I can really figure out where I stand.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-04-25 09:59  

#4  Absolutely Mullah Richard. If Schumer is for something, it is a safe bet to be against it. His motivation is strictly Party and not what's good for the country.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-04-25 08:37  

#3  When 'Chuck' agrees with something, I almost always think it's a bad idea.

Experience from historical data, I guess.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2017-04-25 08:28  

#2  No, no, Chuckie has it right. After all, he knows what best for the Country!
Posted by: Bobby   2017-04-25 07:29  

#1  Pennies for Old Ironsides

In 1906, Congress appropriated a sum of money not to exceed $100,000 for the repairs and restoration of Constitution. Despite expenditure of these funds, by 1924 the condition of the frigate was such that if she was not rebuilt, the Navy’s only two choices would be to break up the ship or let Constitution sink at the dock. The Secretary of the Navy, Curtis D. Wilbur, upon viewing the ship, appointed a Board of Inspection and Survey which after inspecting the ship, recommended on February 19, 1924 that Wilbur ask Congress for a $400,000 appropriation. “The Secretary, however, took the attitude that it would be a fine gesture on the part of the people of the country, and particularly the school children, if they contributed small donations for the purpose.”

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Perhaps Secretary Wilbur's idea of a public effort might also provide a resolution for the current 'Border Wall' funding dilemma.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-04-25 02:24  

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