• "There's no plan": Congress skips town as shutdown nears
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/13/congress-government-shutdown-no-deal-1063410 Without President Donald Trump to worry about, a bipartisan deal would likely sail through Congress to fund the government ahead of the holidays. But with Trump fueling the border wall brinkmanship, everyone in the Capitol has basically stopped talking. The House and Senate left town Thursday with no strategy to avert a partial government shutdown next week, putting Congress on the brink of an intractable conflict that could drag out through New Year’s Day — furloughing hundreds of thousands of workers and costing taxpayers millions. Lawmakers say there is no public plan to prevent a partial government shuttering. And no secret plan either. “There is no discernable plan. None that’s been disclosed.” said Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, as he threw his hands into the air. “Everybody’s looking to [Trump] for a signal about what he wants to do. So far, it’s not clear.” The House isn’t planning to return until the night of Dec. 19 — leaving only about 72 hours to reach a border wall deal that has eluded both parties for months. Democrats say they’re waiting on Republicans, and Republicans say they’re waiting on Trump. “It’s just all politics and theatrics,” said Rep Tom Cole (R-Okla.). He said leaders of both parties have the same thought going into next week’s final round of negotiations: “Somebody has to lose, and it’s going to not be them.” Meanwhile, Democrats say they’re completely in the dark because Republican leaders haven’t taken part in formal back-and-forth negotiations for more than two weeks, according to a Democratic aide. Some Republicans say they want to delay the decision until Jan. 3 at 11:59 p.m., the exact minute when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would take over leadership in the House. Others are pushing GOP leaders to move the deadline to Dec. 26 to give them at least a few days at home with their families for Christmas.
I know this has been said to death but: What a shitshow.
Shut it down, fuck it.
They would be absolute idiots to, given that Trump has literally stated he'll take full responsibility for the shutdown.
Its a fucking Shitchannel at this rate.
A bunch of monkeys found their way on to the stage and long after the hilarity of the situation passed they stopped flinging their shit at just eachother and its now spilling into the audience. A real shitshow
the best thing that the Democrats could do is select Trump shut down the government and give them absolutely nothing, afterwards fully blaming him for the shutdown and making a very big point about it
Fart loudly leave room k
You say that like Trump and his supporters believe in what Trump said five minutes earlier. He'll blame the democrats with no hint of irony the second the heat starts.
That’s true but there honestly is a fracturing of his base occurring as more and more things just keep failing to add up for them
Idk it's hard to overestimate willful delusion. They'll probably just say he baited the Democrats with a lie so he could blame them for the shutdown later or something.
he already is. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1073327086037741568?s=09 this was literally less than 2 days after he said he'd take the blame lmao
Lol fucking hell....
Trump just shut it down already. Go ahead. You won't look like an asshole or anything. This would actually be a really smart tweet if not for the idiocy involved in the fact that he's pounding his feet outside of it, and the fact that his three examples don't speak for all democrats, they speak for themselves.
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