Freedom Cacus and Ryan close to a deal - Page 2

Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and public health are not discretionary...wtf.

CR doesn't matter, will FC agree to a 1 year extension? I doubt it.

They have the fucking debt ceiling to deal with, they can't just keep ignoring it using continuing resolutions.

The House Republican Conference is broadly eager to avoid a distraction that might derail tax reform legislation. But they've been struggling to reach a truce to keep the government running.
Even allies of Ryan, including appropriators like Rep. Tom Graves, despise the strategy being pushed by the top. Graves said in an interview that short-term funding bills are a tactic of the minority and argued that Republicans are “squandering” their power of the purse.


This is all in the name of tax reform. Their gonna put their differences aside to not derail that. After that, game on.

If the house passes the budget it will make it hard for dems to reject it purely for daca. Not good

Ya'll this article is from this morning....

edit for clarity: the morning of the 6th

Listen, later in the month is when the real battle will start. I guess there are plans to add the border wall to a long term spending bill. Let’s wait and see what tmrws meeting brings

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/...n-truce-282072

This one was updated 6 pm

Republican lawmakers are asking for an extension, and filed a two-week stopgap measure to buy more time for negotiations, but the new December 22 deadline won’t be approved without a vote in Congress this week. Democrats hold leverage in this situation because Republicans won’t have enough votes to pass the stopgap measure, or any spending plan, without at least a bit of support from Democrats.

Immigration is one of the most likely issues that could lead to a shutdown this year. Senators such as Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Cory Booker have announced that they will refuse to vote on any spending package that doesn’t include DACA protections. Trump repealed DACA in September, ending the program that protects young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children from deportation.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is backing a two-week spending bill, time, he says to reach agreement on larger issues:

(McConnell) "That the caps are gonna be and the other provisions that are gonna be part of the year-end spending measure."

One of those issues is a DACA-fix, designed to reinstate deportation protections for young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children:

(Schumer) "There are good negotiations occurring between Democrats and Republicans to come up with a good DACA program as well as some good border security."

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and other top congressional leaders will meet with the President Thursday afternoon to discuss ways to keep the government funded.