GOP struggles to win votes for Trump's $5B wall demand
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Source: The Hill
House Republicans are struggling to come up with a strategy to fulfill President Trumps demand that the lower chamber pass a funding bill that includes $5 billion for his promised border wall.
By Wednesday evening, GOP leaders still had not settled on what vehicle they would use to fund the wall or if they would even take a vote this week to do so. Lawmakers in the House have until Dec. 21 to avert a partial government shutdown and are only scheduled to work four of those days.
The president is still interested in trying to get a deal, Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) told The Hill as he emerged from a leadership meeting in Speaker Paul Ryans (R-Wis.) ceremonial office just off the House floor. Hes been advocating for $5 billion to everybody, not just Republicans.
We support the objective of making sure the president has the money he needs to secure the border.
In an explosive meeting in the Oval Office a day earlier, Trump told Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that he could easily push $5 billion in wall funding through the House. Pelosi told him the bill would fail spectacularly and dared him to try.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/421113-gop-struggles-to-win-votes-for-trumps-5b-wall-demand
Botany
(70,447 posts)Mexico is gonna pay for the wall
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)The President needs to let the American Taxpayer know when he has the promised funding.
TomCADem
(17,382 posts)Hasn't anyone pointed out to any of the House Republicans that they don't need to fund the wall because Mexico will pay for it?
TomCADem
(17,382 posts)NO TO FASCISM
(40 posts)No way! Our fearless leader would never mislead us. Would he?
JudyM
(29,187 posts)This post was alerted on as being analysis, not LBN, and hosts agreed that analysis/update on an ongoing process is not LBN. Please post in GD instead.