White House calls Democrats' plan to end shutdown 'non-starter'

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS JANUARY 2, 2019 / 1:03 AM / UPDATED 19 MINUTES AGO

White House calls Democrats' plan to end shutdown 'non-starter'

David Morgan
4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump invited Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress to the White House on Wednesday for a border security briefing on the 12th day of a partial federal government shutdown triggered by the Republican president’s demand for $5 billion in border wall funding.

Senior Department of Homeland Security officials will brief the congressional leaders, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, on the last day of the Republican-controlled 2017-2018 Congress.

It was unclear if the meeting would lead to a breakthrough in the standoff over a funding dispute that centers of Trump’s demand that $5 billion in funding for a wall on the Mexican border to be part of any spending measure. Democrats rejected the demand and parts of the federal government have been shut since Dec. 22 because of lack of funding as a result.

When Democrats, led by presumptive House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, take over the House on Thursday, they plan to approve a two-part spending package meant to end the shutdown. But its prospects of passage are grim in the Senate, where Republicans hold a majority.

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1. Hare-brained Republican proposals are treated with serious analysis, as if they could be enacted

While reasonable Democratic proposals are shit-canned in the media before anyone even knows what they are. Your liberal media, on the job!

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2. There will be no breakthrough. It's just Trump theater.

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