CBS's Garrett: Senior admin officials expect Trump to endorse short term funding bill in next hour

[highplainsdem]

Tweeted a few minutes ago by Major Garrett:

Link to tweet

enior administration officials expect @realDonaldTrump to endorse short-term funding bill to reopen government in next hour. Final details being worked out in WH convos now. Unclear if 2 or 3 weeks. Border debate will continue. Stress on Govt systems was increasing.

[Skraxx]

1. Let the CAVING Begin!

Pelosi wins again!

[highplainsdem]

3. Yep.

[scheming daemons]

2. He's desperately trying to get Roger Stone off the news

[highplainsdem]

4. No, this isn't just a diversion.

[Blaukraut]

5. He wants to give that SOTU speech in the house chamber so badly

Watch him pull the same blackmail crap once he has basked in the adulation he so craves. Guaranteed, in three weeks we will be right back to where we are now.

[jpljr77]

7. Ding, ding, ding. It's the only thing that matters to him: attention. He is pathetic.

[RockRaven]

11. That's a good reason to refuse to allow a House Chamber SOTU until everything is fully funded

through the end of the year. No SOTU in the House Chamber while there is a shutdown OR anything operating on a short-term CR.

[Blaukraut]

16. Yup. Nancy Pelosi should hold chamber access hostage now :D n/t

[Guilded Lilly]

32. This was my thought as well (one of many)...

Though there are several raging anxieties every day in my head about this entire nightmare, I think the wretched lunatic Cretin desperately wants his personal moment of historical self-promoting grandeur so he can pathologically lie and brag about his fantasy world and then continue to destroy Democracy.

No morals.
No character.
No soul.
But plenty of toxic insanity to continue the systematic dismantling of the United States, with the extreme enabling of the treasonous Republicans.

[backscatter712]

6. Forcing the fuckers to a total cave!!! YES!!!

Damned right I'll be gloating.

And glad that federal workers will be getting back to work and getting paid again.

Between that and Roger Stone, today's a great day!

[highplainsdem]

24. +1,000,000

[uponit7771]

8. NICE !!! I wouldn't give him shit unless it's a full opening of the government

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

9. Can't get passed trump tossing a grenade at the mic

Well i thought about the deal....

But no

National emergency I WIN

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. So no emergency declaration?

Interesting.

The Madman seems scared.

[Skraxx]

12. That Was A Total Bluff, and BOSS Pelosi Knew It!

[highplainsdem]

14. The "news" last night about WH drafting that declaration was leaked to try to get Dems to cave.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. Well, that was stupid.

Democrats almost certainly have a lawsuit ready to file if he ever attempts to use that mechanism to get a wall.

Who thinks of these things?

[backscatter712]

30. Exactly.

Pelosi had the papers ready to file, so she'd go for the injunction about 5 minutes after Trump declared the emergency.

The courts would agree with Pelosi - after all, the Constitution states that the House controls the purse strings, and the idea of this national emergency being an actual emergency is questionable at best.

Which would leave Trump stuck back where he is right now.

[haele]

13. Two or three weeks? WTF?

No, no, no...that's not even enough time to bring people back and fill out the paperwork needed just to re-open the government.
4 million Federal Contractors will still be out of jobs; no company will sign a contract for two/three weeks, and then an indeterminate time off while the GOP continues to think they can avoid responsibility to the Constitution and their constituents and push through their End Times Kackocracy free-for-all they want to replace Democracy with.

Furloughed people will not be coming back just to pick up January's back-pay and then go back on furlough.

Haele

[McCamy Taylor]

15. No no no. He needs to commit to long term funding. Otherwise every time the Dems hold hearings he

will "shut it down" again.

[Freethinker65]

17. 2 to 3 weeks CR is not enough. Counter with at least 6 months

Negotiate for around 3 months stipulating Senate during that time will not waste time with any judicial, nor other non-essential nominations, until a final budget is approved.

If the GOP in eager to pack the courts and gevernment with Trump loyalists, they are more likely to pass a budget that will pass the House.

[highplainsdem]

23. The Dems have already voted on bills for a short-term CR. Would look bad to move the goalposts now

when the situation is so desperate for everyone affected by the shutdown, and Trump is caving.

[bearsfootball516]

29. Yep.

As Napoleon put it.

Never interfere with your enemy when he's in the process of destroying himself.

[UniteFightBack]

18. One little whiff of trouble with the airlines. SIGN IT DUMB ASS DOTARD. nt

[highplainsdem]

19. ABC News and CNN now also reporting this.

[highplainsdem]

20. LBN thread about ABC report:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142252729

[highplainsdem]

22. WSJ: Trump Considers Signing Three-Week Spending Bill to Reopen Government

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-considering-agreeing-to-sign-three-week-spending-bill-as-early-as-friday-11548439078

[D_Master81]

25. Trump clearly tired of all the winning recently

Decided to let the Dems have this 1. 😂

[underpants]

26. Refund checks. People LOVE them. The IRS May have been tipping point

I’d guess all the no shows at the IRS showed that people’s belived refund checks could really be really really late.

Ross and Kudlow yesterday didn’t help.

[MineralMan]

27. Kicking the can down the road.

Back to crisis mode in 2 to 3 weeks. This is not a solution in any way.

[highplainsdem]

31. It's "not a solution in any way"? Tell that to the people facing losing their homes,

or having to go to food banks.

This is a temporary solution that Dems have been voting for. It would be foolish to move the goalpost when Trump is caving, when so many people are hurting.

[MineralMan]

34. Well, it would give those people their back pay, anyhow.

But, I can guarantee they'll still be worried about it all falling apart again in less than a month. It's not going to inspire a lot of confidence.

It may, however, be the best we can get at this time. I find that disappointing, frankly.

You say Trump is caving. I don't know that to be the case. Trump may also be planning to renew his demands immediately after a temporary re-opening of government is accomplished. That sounds a lot like what he might do to me.

So, if we get a 2-3 week break, people will be able to pay their past-due bills, but will not have confidence that they'll be able to continue to pay their obligations after that. Will they get all the money that is currently owed them, even? We don't know yet.

Frankly, I don't see an actual end to anything in this. I see more turmoil ahead and maybe even worse.

[highplainsdem]

35. Yes, it probably is the best we can get at this time. Disappointing? His entire presidency has

been disappointing.

More turmoil ahead? We've already had more than two years of turmoil, and that isn't likely to end until Trump is removed from office, by impeachment or electoral defeat in 2020.

But this was a major victory for the Democrats, especially Pelosi.

I'm going to celebrate the victories when they come, not knock them because they aren't perfect or final.

And I'm especially going to celebrate having hundreds of thousands of hostages freed.

They're going to celebrate.

And the ones who were taken hostage who voted for Trump will probably think twice before doing so again.

[KewlKat]

28. he just wants to reopen long enough so he can give

The State of the union speech. DON'T LET HIM

[LuvNewcastle]

33. Yep.

As alway, he's thinking about himself. That never changes.