SCHUMER: I put 'the wall' on the table in my meeting with Trump, but he backed out of the deal

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Source: businessinsider.com



Bob Bryan 8h 8,921


The federal government entered a partial shutdown at midnight.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said President Donald Trump agreed to a deal on immigration, healthcare, and spending levels during a White House meeting Friday but went back on the deal later in the day.
According to Schumer, Democrats offered to give Trump funding for his long-promised wall along the Mexican border in a deal including a solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Schumer said Trump rejected the deal.


Senate Minority Chuck Schumer said Friday that he offered to include funding for President Donald Trump's wall along the Mexican border as part of a deal to avoid a government shutdown.

During a speech on the Senate floor after the government officially hit a funding lapse, Schumer told members that a deal he offered to Trump would have given the president some funding for the long-promised wall in exchange for codification of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program. ..................................

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/government-shutdown-schumer-wall-funding-for-daca-trump-deal-2018-1

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Dan 'Stable Genius' Hamell
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It's frightening to see how many people commenting on this article clearly haven't even bothered to read it.

Schumer offered Trump everything apart from guaranteed full cover on the wall, so the petulant child still took his ball home.

#TrumpShutdown

[FakeNoose]

1. These tweet thread commenters are all from the Trump cult

... and probably many of them are Russian bots. How are any of these comments relevant?

Pro tip: the comments posted on DU are 99.9% more relevant than anything one might see on this tweet thread.

Just sayin'

[Historic NY]

2. Trump thinks he's winning but he is his own worse enemy....

a two-faced one at that.

[Atticus]

3. THIS is why I contribute only to individual Democrats! The wall is a STUPID idea!

On some level, everyone knows it. Why should any serious person agree to "discuss" it?

Should we "discuss" eugenics next?

[FakeNoose]

4. Schumer is proving that Trump never wanted a deal

Trump wanted the shut down, and he got it.

If he wanted to make a deal with the Democrats, there would have been some kind of deal. Maybe not the Wall - and I agree that would have been a huge mistake - but there are plenty of other worthy projects to deal on.

[LakeArenal]

11. Agreed!

Schumer went knowing he would not get a deal, but at least they can't say he wouldn't even meet them or negotiate.

edited to add: still mad at Schumer for AL. But support him as a Dem.

[JI7]

7. So you have a problem with him exposing trump ?

[Atticus]

14. And "exposing Trump" accomplished exactly what? It DID, however, normalize the very

stupid idea of his precious wall in the minds of less-informed. "Guess the wall in some form is a reasonable proposal 'cause even Schumer was willing to "put it on the table."
It's not just a game played in DC. What our very visible leaders accept influences opinions out here in flyover country.

[LuckyLib]

17. The wall is an issue that should be dismissed with a sneer at every turn.

You're so right -- Schumer should have made clear that this is something most Americans think is ridiculous. Then insist that Trump discuss other possible avenues of compromise.

[Freethinker65]

5. Man, I hope that was a bluff

[pangaia]

6. That is my take. Schumer knew what he was doing..

Of course... what do I know sitting here at my puter drinking coffee..

[DBoon]

10. and if Trump accepted

We get funding for a wall that never gets built and Trump "sells out" his anti-immigrant base by allowing DACA to continue

Either Trump is shown to be a fraud or his base splinters

win-win

[djacq]

8. Senator Schumer already knew that the Orange Clown was going to back out.

There’s no way you can add $1.5 milllion to the deficit, then ask for a stupid border wall.
He’s not going to get his stupid wall.

[tomp]

9. I'm sorry to hear he made such an offer.

I do not trust my senior (or junor) senator.

[GulfCoast66]

12. Lose the anger for a minute

It was brilliant strategy the paints Trump into a corner. Schumer know that there is no way Republicans will approve a DACA fix. Their base will bail unless Trump really sells it.

Hell, give them the wall for DACA and Chip.

Then when we take the house do not fund it. Pretty simple.

[rockfordfile]

13. No. He would have been screwed if Trump took the deal.

Because now Trump is going to say hey give me the deal. Trump is a racist and fascist. The excuse is that the "hard right" changed his mind. I don't buy it. The GOP agenda is the Trump agenda.

[JI7]

15. It's only normalized for the bigots,. Just like deporting daca kids

[bluestarone]

16. i'm thinking maybe NOT THE WALL tRump wanted tho LOL