Administration panics over plan to close the border

[DonViejo]

By ANNA PALMER, JAKE SHERMAN and DANIEL LIPPMAN 04/02/2019 06:13 AM EDT

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is in a state of panic over PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S plans to close the southern border. We spoke to several senior administration figures who described a White House freaked out about the implications of closing the border -- both for the USMCA, the president’s top legislative priority, and because they believe it will result in an immediate spike in the cost of consumer goods.

WE HEAR … There are people in the White House who are trying to cobble together a plan to present to Congress that would seek to tighten immigration laws -- a way to beg the president off his close-the-border plan. Of course, you should be very, very skeptical anything would get through Congress, but the people who work for the president are trying to head off what they see as another self-inflicted wound.

EVIDENCE OF THE PANIC … AT 8:33 P.M. last night in London -- 3:33 p.m. in D.C. -- a U.S. Coast Guard G5 that DHS SECRETARY KIRSTJEN NIELSEN typically uses took off from Stansted Airport just 24 hours after it landed. NIELSEN was in London for meetings, and inside the White House, there was discussion all day Monday of bringing her back to the United States. This plane landed at DCA at 11:36 p.m. Nielsen came back to Washington for this.

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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/04/02/administration-panics-over-plan-to-close-the-border-and-inside-john-harris-new-politico-role-419629

[Freethinker65]

1. Complete bullshit. Just close the damn border.

See how fucked up everything gets after a couple of hours, then have Trump "solve" the problem by reopening it.

Don't give Trump anything for his threats.

[democratisphere]

2. Another drumpfian authoritarian diversion sh'tshow.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Following the pattern of closing the Government.

Trump sees his showboating antics as good TV ratings, while ignoring the real impact.