A make-or-break week for Trump

ouse Republican leaders are hoping the president boosts their leverage in spending talks by endorsing their position on key policy fights.

Lawmakers have not even agreed to spending levels, making it likely that they will have to pass a stopgap funding bill to avoid a shutdown.

Republican leaders hope Trump supports their plan to raise defense spending caps that were imposed in a 2011 budget deal, according to a source familiar with their thinking.

They also want Trump to back their demand that immigration be kept separate from any stopgap spending measure.

Republicans and Democrats have squabbled for weeks over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era initiative that allowed young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to live and work in the country.

Trump set off a scramble on Capitol Hill when he terminated the program earlier this year.

Many Democrats are threatening to withhold their support from a spending bill if the DACA provisions are not included, raising the risk of a shutdown.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday those Democrats are trying to “hold the government hostage.”

Democrats say they won’t back down from their demands on immigration. They also plan to push Trump to back a bipartisan deal to fund the government, extend community health center funding, approve new disaster relief and reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

“There is a bipartisan path to getting there, and we hope that we can make progress on all of those issues,” said a senior Senate Democratic aide.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...week-for-trump

Dont even think about backing down Dems!

16 years of effort culminates today.

Here we go!!!

Trump tweets: Meeting with “Chuck and Nancy” today about keeping government open and working. Problem is they want illegal immigrants flooding into our Country unchecked, are weak on Crime and want to substantially RAISE Taxes. I don’t see a deal!

That's one way to derail the talks even before it has begun!

Hopefully Mcconell and Ryan aren’t so stupid. I don’t have much hope for them though, they just do his bidding.

Another tweet full of lies.

Lol , well they can find republican votes to keep the government open. I truly question their desire to help us. What’s the difference if legislation to help us passes this year or next year? Or stand alone or attached to a spending deal for that matter.

this is just ridiculous

I don’t think they want to be forced into passing the bill. Democrats will take all the credit. At the same time, democrats want to pass it now because they don’t ever want to vote against a bill for relief for us, even a bad bill. (Interior enforcement etc)