Congress and White House inch forward in budget talks

In a private call with House Democratic leaders after the meeting, Pelosi called the “Big Four” huddle a “process meeting,” according to a source on the call. She stressed that Democrats are eager for a deal to avert a government shutdown.

In his weekly leadership meeting, McConnell told other GOP senators that the gathering was “somewhat productive” while stressing that immigration policy was on a separate track from the spending negotiations, one source in the room said.


Negotiators are discussing ways to address those concerns, senators said. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) also said Wednesday that their plan would include a pathway to citizenship for so-called Dreamers that strikes a middle ground between the Dream Act, which he authored with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and a more conservative proposal written by GOP Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and James Lankford of Oklahoma.

"The deal is there, we just need to go write it down and do it and get people to sign off on it," Graham said as he left Durbin's office following a meeting of Senate immigration negotiators.

Schumer was relatively optimistic during a meeting with his own leadership team late Wednesday afternoon.

“He felt there was some movement. He did feel there was some progress,” said West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a member of Schumer’s leadership circle

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This is all irrelevant as long as Trump keeps insisting on wall funding. Republicans will have to go along with it. We shall see tomorrow after the meeting. I believe a list of demands will be released then.

We’re so fucked guys.

How are we fucked !!!! Why so much negativity !!!! Their is work in progress they could have said fuck dreamers let’s work on the budget !!!!! Cheer the fuck up we’re going to get a solution, trust !!

we're screwed arent we?

LOL! I’m never emo. Obviously I was joking. I’m not one of those negative, heavy breathing keyboard warriors.

Trump has proven that he doesn’t know shit about what’s in the bills that congress comes up with. He’s going to sign anything that this congress passes. He is just saying this wall bullshit to keep his base interested. I know more about the final tax bill than he does hands down.

Ok lol just making sure, every time news comes out everyone freaks the fuck out like: we’re fucked , we’re screwed, I’m packing up it’s like chill out people stuff is in the works and we’re being acknowledged.

We shouldnt get too excited. Clearly repubs are trying to seperate a dreamer solution from the spending bill. For all we know repubs could be pretending to negotiate and just try to slide a spendimg bill with a handshake for potentially bringing up a dreamer bill and end up just kicking the can until we pass march -___- politics smh