ebevan91
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What is "the memo" al the MAGAs on Twitter are wailing about?
It's not just Hannity, etc. talking about it this time. Actual members of the House of Representatives are talking about it too.
What is "the memo" al the MAGAs on Twitter are wailing about?
Meadows and Jordan are HFC nutcases so I wouldn't put too much stock in it
Next, Trump and his base are going to demand the wall cover the entire US border with this great wall so no one can get in by land or sea. Then they'll want a dome over the whole country to keep people out by air. Then we'll put trackers on all incoming foreigners so we can make sure they leave when they are supposed to, or chase them down and expel them if they don't. That should fix our patchy system!
Does anyone think the democrats will shut down the government in a few hours? President Trump is saying he is making progress with negotiations but there are only a few hours left and I have not seen any reports of any major groups of democrats budging.
Its Republicans that have issues. Trump wants to shut down for a wall.
Still, thenpublic would blame Republicans more if the shutdown happens since they are in charge of everything.
It's almost like the GOP shouldn't hold programs like CHIPS and DACA hostage to keep the Government running.
We had a bipartisan DACA deal until Trump went full racist! He was the one who blew it.
Are they holding either hostage? DACA does not end till March, and CHIPS was added as a sweetener to get Democrats on board as that is one of the things they have been asking for, for a long time. The Republicans could have passed a clean CR but that may not entice swing state Democrats in the Senate to vote for it. To me it seems the only ones holding hostages to keep the Government from running are the Democrats right now.
CHIP was added as an alternative to DACA to get Democrats to vote for the one month extension--in other words, GOP used CHIP as leverage. That isn't the GOP adding a sweetener, that was the GOP releasing one hostage to hold a more valuable one.
This isn't hard to intuit: the GOP could introduced a clean DACA (or heck, include it as a rider alongside or in lieu of CHIP) and the one month extension would have passed anyway--so what are they waiting for? They are saving DACA because they want it as leverage, and if they can wait until as close to March as possible the Dems may need to accept whatever DACA is attached to. My own speculation is they'll want to attach it to the entitlement reductions--because Dems will try to oppose that and DACA is perhaps the only thing that will get Dems to consider it and losing DACA or effecting entitlement reductions is detrimental to Democrats. The better political calculation may be a shutdown after all--since this is likely the only time between now and March the Dems have anything resembling leverage.
Or do you honestly believe that sometime between now and March the GOP is going to introduce a clean DACA with no strings attached?