Battle looms over funding for Trump's border wall

[DonViejo]

BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 11/09/18 06:00 AM EST

The biggest fight looming for lawmakers in the lame-duck session is over President Trump’s request to fully fund his proposed border wall, which he made a top priority while campaigning for GOP candidates this fall.

Republican leaders, leery of a partial government shutdown, are hesitant to push Trump’s demand to the brink. But lawmakers acknowledge it will be tough to resist the president if he insists on a hardline position given his popularity with the GOP base.

Trump this week called on Congress to fully fund his border-wall proposal, setting the stage for a difficult negotiation that will stretch well into December.

“We need the money to build the wall, the whole wall — not pieces of it all over,” the president said at a White House press conference Wednesday. “I’d like to see the wall.”

Democrats are staunchly opposed to the idea. They argue that it’s bad policy and don’t want to give Trump a major accomplishment that he can take into his 2020 reelection campaign.

Yet, after Trump hammered Democratic candidates repeatedly over border security during the 30 rallies he held after Labor Day, Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) says he’s willing to give something to Trump.

“On the general issue of border security, we’ve had great discussions in the appropriations process. They’ve been bipartisan,” Schumer said Wednesday.

Schumer said “there are good agreements on border security and other things that are in the Homeland Security appropriation” and predicted Republican and Democratic leaders could “get something good done” as long as the president doesn’t interfere.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/415834-battle-looms-over-funding-for-trumps-border-wall

[in2herbs]

1. I've posted before that I think Schumer should be replaced with someone with a spine.

[stopbush]

2. The fake wall will never be built now that Ds control the purse strings in the House.

Rs WILL work with Ds to fund increased border security outside of funding the fake wall. The question will be whether Rs intend to run on the wall funding in 2020. If they were smart, they would give up on the wall idea and move on to something else. But that might be hard to do if tRump is still ranting about the wall in 2020, because Rs are going to need every ignorant, racist voter they can muster to get reelected.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. When's Mexico going to ante up?

That's what they need to ask Trump.