arizona1: Trump made a promise to his voters he would build a wall. But he also made a promise that Mexico would pay for the wall. Now he wants all the tax payers who didn't vote for him and his wall to pay for it. IMO Trump should sell out all his holdings and pay for the wall himself.
House Speaker-Designate Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that on Thursday, the House would vote on a series of measures that would reopen the government. There are seven outstanding appropriations bills: the series of measures the House Democrats are proposing would fund six for a year, and extend funding for the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 8. The bills have all passed Senate committees on a bipartisan basis.
They would vote separately on the funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which has been the sticking point that produced the shutdown. That bill would fund Homeland Security through Feb. 8 at current levels, which does not include money for a border wall. This latter part is similar to what the Senate passed unanimously earlier in December, before the House rejected it to fund Trump’s border wall .. http://time.com/5487763/trump-border-wall-less-money/ .
“While President Trump drags the nation into Week Two of the Trump Shutdown and sits in the White House and tweets, without offering any plan that can pass both chambers of Congress, Democrats are taking action to lead our country out of this mess,” Schumer and Pelosi said in a joint statement. “This legislation reopens government services, ensures workers get the paychecks they’ve earned and restores certainty to the lives of the American people.”
The plan is unlikely to go anywhere unless Trump concedes he will not get his border wall imminently. With this measure, Democrats are explicitly trying to ensuring that the buck for the government shutdown stops with Trump and Senate Republicans.
“This isn’t that hard: All Senate Republicans have to do is pass legislation they have already supported on a bipartisan basis,” said one House Democratic aide. “They can either vote for their own bills and reopen the government or block them and continue the shutdown.”
“If Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans refuse to support the first bill, then they are complicit with President Trump in continuing the Trump shutdown and in holding the health and safety of the American people and workers’ paychecks hostage over the wall,” Schumer and Pelosi said in their statement. “It would be the height of irresponsibility and political cynicism for Senate Republicans to now reject the same legislation they have already supported.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office could not provide any predictions about how the Senate would proceed on the legislation, but said that the Senate would not deliver anything to the President that he would not sign. If the President continues to insist on $5 billion for the wall, the House Democrats’ plan would fall into that category. The government has been partially shut down since midnight on Dec. 22, with the government locked in a standoff over Trump’s wall demand. He says he will reject any spending package that lacks it, but the Senate Republicans do not have the votes to deliver that legislation to him. They need 60 votes to accomplish that objective, which would require some Democratic support.
Government Shutdown Cost $24 Billion and Accomplished Nothing
By Stephano Medina | Oct. 17, 2013
According to Standard & Poor's, the 16-day government shutdown has cost the economy $24 billion. That number includes $3.1 billion in lost government services, $3.5 billion in lost wages, $2.4 billion in vacations people didn't go on, and another $1.2 billion from closing down the National Parks. Fourth-quarter GDP growth, which economists estimated to be around 4%, was tapered down to 2.4%.
To put that number in perspective, the federal deficit for the 2012-2013 fiscal year was a little over $900 billion, and total Obamacare spending (not including its increased revenues) comes to a bit over $600 billion. These are the numbers that the GOP is likely to point to next year when defending what Nancy Pelosi is now referring to as a $24 billion "temper tantrum." Even a modest concession, such as the $60 billion medical device tax, would have made shutting down the government worthwhile for Senator Ted Cruz and the Tea Party caucus.
Democrats will have plenty of their own "context" to throw out. $24 billion would fund one-and-a-half NASAs, or pay to send a manned mission halfway to Mars. $24 billion could pay for over one million students to receive free in-state college tuition. It could also buy everyone in America a Subway sandwich 15 days in a row.
Trump said a shutdown is the president’s fault, and a fireable offense
Guess which president he was talking about?
President Trump has flip-flopped several times in the course of just a week on the shutdown he’s caused. First, Trump said he’d be “proud” to shut down the federal government if a spending deal doesn’t include $5 billion for a wall he said Mexico would pay for. Then on Friday, when a shutdown looked inevitable with no budget deal reached, Trump tweeted, “The Democrats now own the shutdown!” https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=145680419
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