This is what should have been the case all along. Even the two agents that I know who actually work the southern border say the wall is the worst idea, because there aren't even enough agents to watch it.
They literally would have 24+ hours to figure out how to climb over it before someone came by.
Democrats already compromised when they passed a bipartisan spending bill that Donald Trump refused to sign. At this point, caving to Trump sets as dangerous a precedent as a long-term government shutdown. We simply can't allow this kind of hostage-taking to become normal.
Veto override or nothing, you god damned spineless cowards
This is giving him the money he wants, but explicitly for things that aren't walls. I'd kind of accept it as a backhanded deal.
...Which he will then immediately re-appropriate for the wall via executive order or some other budgetary measure, because he's an untrustworthy madman without a shred of integrity in his entire body.
I think they're expecting this offer to get shut down. They're offering everything but the wall just so the republicans can decline it, even though it has almost everything they asked for. I kind of like that strategy. It gives the democrats something to point to as proof that they tried funding the government, they aren't the ones willingly keeping the government shut down. This isn't even the first time they did this.
And despite all that, there will still be retards loudly assuring that the shutdown is the democrats' fault.
yeah i'm pretty sure it's a challenge to Trump to either pass a budget fulfilling the supposed aims of the wall, or spell it out that he literally just wants to check off that campaign promise and the wall itself has no actual purpose. three guesses which one he's going to go with lol
I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty positive that even an EO can't rebudget something that the House has set.
While I do not trust him not to try, the President is simply not allowed to spend money on whatever he wishes. It's in the Constitution - Article 1 Section 9: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law". If the law says "this money may be spent on hiring and equipping Border Patrol agents", Trump can't spend it on a wall. He can try, but the courts would easily stop it. This is one of those clauses that's really obvious when you break, and taken pretty damn seriously.
You think pathetic little things like laws will stop Mad King Donnie? They might but not while McConnell's in charge of the Senate. Trusting the Supreme Court is a diceroll where several faces say "DICTATORSHIP" and you don't get a mulligan after you throw.