Lawmakers Close In on Shutdown Deal and Brace for Trump to Blow It Up: Sources

[demmiblue]

Source: The Daily Beast

Lawmakers have made notable progress on a deal to end the federal government shutdown five weeks after it first started, several Capitol Hill sources told The Daily Beast on Friday morning.

The deal, like all those that require President Trump’s sign-off, is subject to revision and remains at the mercy of the president’s political whims. But the sources said that the talks, which began in earnest Thursday afternoon, had moved along further than any before and that news of terminals closing at LaGuardia Airport because of a reported shortage of air traffic controllers had put “gasoline on the fire.”

Under the proposed resolution, the government would be reopened with funding set at current levels. Lawmakers are still negotiating how long that funding should last, with Democrats pushing for as long a deal as possible so as to not end up back at the current situation within a matter of weeks.

There will be no funding included in the deal for Trump’s proposed wall along the southern border. Nor will the deal include a “down-payment” as the president requested on Thursday.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawmakers-close-in-on-shutdown-deal-and-brace-for-trump-to-blow-it-up-sources/

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. This needs to happen

If the Senate can't get 60 votes for cloture then the GOP there are to blame. If it does manage to pass the Senate (the House would be a given), then let the vetoes fall where they may but at least let the PROCESS go forward to put the blame squarely where it belongs.

[mcar]

2. Good

no wall, stretch out the temp funding for a couple months, at least and get those workers paid and back on the job.

[TimeToGo]

3. Yes and yes

[Cold War Spook]

4. Get the votes.

Pass it and if Donny does not sign-off on it then maybe some of his followers that are out of work will finally realize it is all Donny's fault.

[groundloop]

7. Don't forget though, there's a hell of a lot of folks out of work who AREN'T his followers

[DENVERPOPS]

10. Dubious

It is very dubious that the Trump voters would change..........None of them are educated in Civics and can therefore not understand an iota of what is going on............

[olegramps]

13. I think that you could leave off "in Civics" and have a more correct appraisal. Just a suggestion.

[workinclasszero]

5. Herr Dump will not sign off

No US taxpayer monies for racist vanity wall, Fox & Friends and Coltergeist would not approve!

[aggiesal]

8. I'll see smoke out of Mann Coulter ears ...

on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight.

I hope Bill calls out all her bull $hit.

[NurseJackie]

16. OMG! Seriously?

It's amazing to see such open hostility to the transgender community.

What a shame.

[George II]

25. "Mann Coulter"? What's that supposed to mean? To me it means homophobia and/or intolerance.

[aggiesal]

26. NO! It's the claim that she has an adam's apple in her throat. ...

I don't see it, but I find it humorous that other do.

Surprised this is the first time you've heard her referred by that name.

[lark]

23. Much more importantly - neither would Deripaska or PUtin.

No wall, no massive buy of (probably, defective) Derispaska Russian steel. Also FBI wouldn't continue losing agents and prosecutions of his family, his businesses and himself would continue. Other than re-election, there is nothing in it personally for him so he will probably not sign. If he does take his re-election seriously, he will sign, then issue an Emergency Order to build the wall. He knows it still won't get built, but at least he will look more serious to his idiotic base and his Russian masters. Don't know if the Russian masters will go for this though, they are much smarter than his base.

[left-of-center2012]

6. Will it fund food stamps and housing assistance?

[Achilleaze]

9. republicans what to know what Roger Stone thinks they should do

He's making his one phone from the jail to Putin so he can give them the direction they want.

[NurseJackie]

11. Now that Stone has been arrested... Trump will be in a very foul mood.

[bdamomma]

15. is he going to pout

and yell may be he will have a breakdown. Hopefully.

[NurseJackie]

17. I pray for him every day...

... I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

[kozar]

21. I am preparing,

for Trump's next move. My guess is govt reopens and within 4 days,, national emergency announcement. He is in foul mood and scared, emergency move is next I think. Hell, gov't may not even reopen before it happens.

Koz

[LakeSuperiorView]

12. Bullshit. They can reopen the government without Trump.

Pass a bipartisan bill with veto proof margins and Dipshit's tantrum don't matter. Make him irrelevant and push his agenda aside. Show the Russians we can't be forced to buy Russian steel from Evraz.

[bdamomma]

14. this just has to end.

it is affecting too many peoples lives. trump needs to be arrested.

[Girard442]

18. So, the shutdown has gone on more than a month.

Why not two months? Three? Four? Members of Congress have to see that things will continue to get worse without limit and that they have to reach an agreement without Trump, if for no other reason than to save their own skins -- and I'm not talking about avoiding defeat in the 2020 elections.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy

[watoos]

19. Anyone check with Coulter and Limpballs?

I read where Coulter may primary Trump if he makes it that far. I guess Trump isn't wicked enough.

[asiliveandbreathe]

20. Veto proof the vote....n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

22. Any Senator who will not vote to override a Trump veto needs to wear that decision like an albatros

all the way till their next election. Seriously. If/when Senate Republicans give in to Russian compromat, they need to be named have mug shots selected (preferably their lowest photo moment) and stalked like the traitors they are. Because the shut down only benefits Trump/Russia in that it weakens the United States and delays the Congressional hearings.

I volunteer to assemble the items needed.

[cstanleytech]

24. What bullshit as Trump only has power because the Senate Repugnants are cowards and

do not want to buck him which they easily could do as they are the majority in the Senate.