GOP senators challenge Trump on shutdown strategy

skysla · 01-09-2019, 04:55 PM

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...tdown-strategy

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Some Senate Republicans on Wednesday challenged President Trump on his strategy for ending a 19-day shutdown, expressing concerns over its impact on federal workers and the economy.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who faces a tough reelection in a state Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won in 2016, said she asked Trump to consider a bipartisan compromise she co-wrote with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) last year to give certain immigrants, known as Dreamers, a path to citizenship in exchange for border security money.

“I suggested that we take a look at the package that we put together last February and brought to the floor as a possible compromise,” Collins said, recounting her conversation with Trump during a closed-door lunch meeting in the Capitol.

But, she said, the president insisted that he receive a substantial increase in border funding without giving green cards to immigrants in the country illegally who came to the country at a young age.

The bipartisan immigration proposal, which would have created a pathway to citizenship for about 1.8 million people, would have also provided $25 billion for broad border security. It fell five votes short of the 60-vote hurdle needed to overcome a filibuster but garnered support from eight Republicans.

“The president is very convinced of his position and the necessity of the $5.7 billion” he has requested to build a border wall, Collins told reporters.

jorgeag92 · 01-09-2019, 04:57 PM

hopefully they dont change the cutoff date last minute again

davidrellis · 01-09-2019, 05:00 PM

At some point all these republican senators that want to open the government need to realize that they need to get McConnell to bring the house bills to a vote. It’s plain obvious now that Trump won’t change his position.

Red neck · 01-09-2019, 05:07 PM

@ChadPergram
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Pence: There will be no deal without a wall

dreamer__13 · 01-09-2019, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Red neck

@ChadPergram
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Pence: There will be no deal without a wall

There will be no deal period, unless Trump stops being a biatch.

jorgeag92 · 01-09-2019, 05:22 PM

I think its funny that 800,000 workers are without pay due to the shutdown and coincidentally there are 800,000 dreamers that need GC.

jwxie518 · 01-09-2019, 05:47 PM

Miller at work.

vft1008 · 01-09-2019, 05:49 PM

Did someone say Miller?

Swim19 · 01-09-2019, 06:05 PM

Well Trump just walked out of a meeting with Democrats, so things are swell.

Malign0n · 01-09-2019, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Swim19

Well Trump just walked out of a meeting with Democrats, so things are swell.

Can’t tell if it’s sarcasm

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