UPDATE: Schumer Goes to the White House to Reopen Negotiations

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times

• The government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. Saturday if lawmakers fail to get an agreement on some kind of spending bill.

• On Thursday night, the House passed a short-term extension that would fund the government until mid-February.

• In the Senate, Democrats appear ready to block any deal, gambling that President Trump will have to offer concessions to avoid a shutdown.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/us/politics/government-shutdown.html

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WaPO article -

Government shutdown looms as Trump sets a meeting with Schumer

With less than 12 hours before a possible government shutdown, President Trump called Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) at midday Friday and invited him to the White House to discuss striking a deal.

The meeting was set to take place as the federal government remained on a path toward closing at midnight. Senate Democrats had rallied against a short-term spending bill that does not offer protections for young undocumented immigrants or address other priorities such as disaster relief, and the House was threatening to adjourn, having already passed the bill Thursday night.

Neither Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) nor House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) planned to attend the White House meeting, according to GOP aides, leaving Schumer in a position of relative influence.

Trump and the Republicans, who control all levers of government, faced the possibility of a shutdown on the first anniversary of his inauguration. According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, Americans by a 20-point margin blame Trump and the GOP over Democrats if the government closes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/shutdown-looms-as-senate-democrats-dig-in-against-gop-spending-plan/2018/01/19/f4370868-fccd-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Another bad mark on these guys' report cards...

Goes to show you that these guys (and of course gals), all repugs, can't govern unless they are taking something away from all of us...

[bucolic_frolic]

2. After all that's gone down this past year

any deal is a bad deal. Let the GOP twist in the wind

"Chuck, you know me, I'm very popular. If you don't give me what I want, I'll blame the shutdown on Democrats! "Shifty Schumer" wouldn't compromise will be the headline, and I'll tweet the house down on you!"

"Mr. President, you hold the majority. You don't need ONE Democrat."

[Wwcd]

4. + a million.

K & R

[RussBLib]

14. That's not true

60 votes are required in the Senate since this measure affects the deficit.

Simple majority works in the House.

Apparently four Rep Senators are also opposed.

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Ah! Thanks, as usual I am misinformed

[C Moon]

3. Trump is not a deal maker. He's a liar. This is a useless control-freak meeting. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

6. LOL, that IS a healthy take on it!

[sprinkleeninow]

9. Habitual/continual lying is a sickness. Someone told me that.

[RussBLib]

15. Schumer should record the meeting

Because Trump will invariably lie about what was said

[BobTheSubgenius]

37. Not on Schumer's part, though.

The optics can be interpreted positively. "I went to him. He was intransigent."

[louis c]

5. As I posted earlier...

...You allow a vote on the Durbin-Graham DACA compromise to be a Senate amendment vote to the House bill without a filibuster and I'll allow a vote on the final CR without a filibuster.

This is a win for our side, as we will get DACA and CHIP.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. If the Senate amends the House version, the House has to re-vote on it.

But if the teabaggers & other loons complain, they could still pass it in the House as long as 25 Rs go along with all Democrats.

[louis c]

10. It will pass easily

It will have the support of almost all the Democrats and Republican leadership, with Trump's blessing, if the deal is cut the way I described.

It will be the beginning of the end for Trump, as his base will be fractured and feel betrayed. Trump will win no new converts, because the opinion of most of us is based not only on policy, but character.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. It's up to Eddie Munster to reschedule a vote before they adjourn!

[mac56]

33. I believe they already have dispersed.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. Not quite

There was uncertainty about House members’ plans to remain in Washington after delivering a take-it-or-leave-it spending bill to the Senate. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said he would release his members to depart for a planned one-week recess, but leadership later advised members that additional votes were possible Friday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/shutdown-looms-as-senate-democrats-dig-in-against-gop-spending-plan/2018/01/19/f4370868-fccd-11e7-a46b-a3614530bd87_story.html

[Snotcicles]

7. If he cuts a deal, get it in writing Chuck. nt

[sprinkleeninow]

12. Good thinking. You dudes and women are incredibly ingenious!

With your calculated/well thought remarks!

[turbinetree]

13. Hey Chuck, don't go by yourself, bring along two others and record the meeting

you never know what this jerk-off will do, and besides, the only reason why he wants to talk his gibberish, is because he will miss out on making $100,000 dollars a person, $200,000 a couple, and just for an added bonus to have picture it cost $50,000 just to have an anniversary party on how bigly his crowds where last year, in Mar A Lago............................... .

Dear Chuck, then tell him to go fuck himself, he owns his party and and they own him.................if the government is shut down, then this asshole and his corrupt party and his treasonous bunch can't do anymore damage to the country, since he likes to be apart of the mafia crowd, squeeze him like a lemon, and tell him, the list of things we want, funding for children and other health programs, no cuts to social programs, infrastructure, clean water, air and food, etc..............he has no clue, so just tell him he's on this former ship.......................






November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[bluestarone]

18. absolutely CORRECT

without a doubt! Bring witness's witness's and witness's

[turbinetree]

21. I wouldn't trust this sexual predator with anything, I want the news people in the room, when he has

Schumer over....................

The TRUMP and REPUBLICAN SHUT Down........................



November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[bluestarone]

22. back at ya

your thinking is my thinking too!! This MORON has to be stopped in his tracks, along with the whole republiCON congress

[workinclasszero]

17. C'mon pResident Dumpster

Stab the republicans in the back and show em who's boss!

[wobblie]

19. tell him he had his compromise last week that he shot down

If Schumer has any, he'll tell him accept what we brought you last week or we go home.

[Fummel]

20. Trump is feeling the heat

He wouldn't arrange a meeting if he knew he had the winning hand.

[bluestarone]

23. i"m thinking the same

His ego is at stake here!!!! He's gotta be the MAN!

[apnu]

24. Don't do it Chuck, they're playing you!

Republicans do not negotiate in good faith. You should know this by now.

[louis c]

25. Schumer will roll Trump

He knows enough that any deal will require Trump and the Repukes to put up first

[BumRushDaShow]

26. Schumer will bullshit him enough to show how doing what he proposes would be a "winning" solution

And all Drumpf cares about is "winning". No matter what.

[leftynyc]

27. Chuck's been at this

A LOT longer than donnie has. I don't worry about him getting rolled.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Chuck does know this by now. He's been in the business

for a long time. He knows that he has to go to the meeting or Trump will accuse him of not wanting to negotiate. But Schumer is a canny old pol and by now I'm sure he knows how to push all the right buttons without Dolt 45 even knowing they're being pushed.

[KPN]

35. Yeah. Trump only cares about being able

to say "I reached out to the Democrats. I tried my best to make this a bipartisan success. I even tried meeting with Schumer alone -- just him and me so we could negotiate a deal to do that. Unfortunately, the Democrats won't budge. They want a government shutdown. I've done more than anyone else could or ever has to make this work. The Democrats are the reason we are all going to have to suffer -- and bigly, believe me -- from a government shutdown."

Trump doesn't care about and doesn't have support to make a deal that the Repugs can agree to. He only cares about covering his own wide ass.

[Honeycombe8]

28. Why bother? They don't want to negotiate. Stay home. Eat some popcorn & watch a movie.

No need to trek down to the WH and get involved in what is essentially a Republican problem.

The Dems have let it be known what they'll agree to it. The end.

[C_U_L8R]

30. Set your iPhone on RECORD

Don't trust this Trumpfucker for squat.

[Mr.Bill]

31. Schumer needs to step up to a microphone

and say "I will not negotiate with a pathological liar. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever."

[dalton99a]

36. +1

[Ferrets are Cool]

32. You have to go to the second page of the LONG story before you find

out that it is the REPUGs that will kill this bill, not the Democrats. Yet, the Democrats are still being blamed.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. I literally just heard a local news story here in Philly regarding comments from Sen. Casey

who indicated that the House bill "doesn't even have enough GOP Senate votes to pass", which is true. There are 51 GOP votes in the Senate.... But then you have -1 because McLame ain't leaving Arizona to vote, so down to 50. And Flake announced he wasn't supporting it, so down to 49. Graham announced a couple days ago he wasn't voting for any short-term (because Drumpf not only suddenly rejected his compromise, but did so in such an insulting and public manner with vile invectives when interupting Graham's explanation of it during that infamous meeting, that Graham still hasn't gotten over the smackdown). So that's 48 and thus a no-go.

[bluestarone]

39. exactly

and why haven't the major news outlets start blaming the repubs?? i mean PUT OUT THERE THE NAMES OF REPUBS THAT ARE NO!!!!!!!!! We've heard NOTHING on this, at least i haven't

[BumRushDaShow]

40. So you don't think a whole week talking about "shithole countries"

which was in response to the efforts of a bipartisan compromise that Americans wanted to see, wasn't "blaming the repubs"?

That shithole comment might have been heehaw hilarious to the GOP yahoo 30% "base", but the rest of the country was sickened by it and know it was related to a CR/the government funding situation that should have been taken care of by the end of September when they were instead running around trying to pass tax cuts for the rich while repealing Obamacare.