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bearsfootball516

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Tue Feb 12, 2019, 01:24 PM Feb 2019

Trump says he's not 'happy' or 'thrilled' with bipartisan border deal [View all]

Source: Washington Post

The tentative deal, announced Monday evening by congressional negotiators, would provide only a fraction of the $5.7 billion President Trump was seeking for 200 miles of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. It would instead provide $1.375 billion for 55 miles of new border fences.

“I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled,” Trump said of the deal.

Unless a border deal is signed into law, the government will enter another partial shutdown on Saturday.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2019/02/12/trump-says-hes-not-happy-or-thrilled-with-bipartisan-border-deal-that-would-avert-another-government-shutdown/?utm_term=.2bdcb9c14e0c



Worries me that Coulter or Limbaugh may have gotten to him and he's going to veto it.
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He'll fucking sign it though. Even he knows he screwed up with the last one. marble falls Feb 2019 #1
Maybe, maybe not! atreides1 Feb 2019 #12
He may have known he screwed up, cab67 Feb 2019 #15
Yup. He'll sign it because Mitch won't protect him this time DrToast Feb 2019 #20
Are you betting on Trump having any common sense? guillaumeb Feb 2019 #31
Doing an overall evaluation 🤔: sprinkleeninow Feb 2019 #33
He apparently needs that adoration. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #35
If he was just an ordinary citizen with no governing power sprinkleeninow Feb 2019 #36
I understand. eom guillaumeb Feb 2019 #39
Then it's probably a halfway decent arrangement sandensea Feb 2019 #2
Isn't that realization disgusting? "All of the above." sprinkleeninow Feb 2019 #34
SO disgusting - like you've never seen, let me tell you. sandensea Feb 2019 #37
I remember that one. The holy repukes think nothing of it. 🤤 sprinkleeninow Feb 2019 #41
They think of him as King David: full of character flaws; but a man of greatness sandensea Feb 2019 #42
Pour lil trumpy has a sad. Canoe52 Feb 2019 #3
Whomp whomp asshole thegoose Feb 2019 #4
I really don't care, do you? Iliyah Feb 2019 #5
Guess what Orangeman. I'm not 'happy' or 'thrilled' with you either, so I guess we're even. politicaljunkie41910 Feb 2019 #6
He never read the fuck'n thing. watoos Feb 2019 #7
Good, go stew about it all night and send some incoherent tweets IronLionZion Feb 2019 #8
"Unless a border deal is signed into law" - WRONG. Civics 101- BumRushDaShow Feb 2019 #9
Well, technically, waiting out the 10-day timeframe of the pocket veto would take us past Demit Feb 2019 #17
A "pocket veto" only applies at the end of the Congressional term (before adjournment). BumRushDaShow Feb 2019 #18
Yes, you're right. I was thinking the term applied to any time the prez "puts it in his pocket" and Demit Feb 2019 #22
Yeah see in that case BumRushDaShow Feb 2019 #25
If Mc Turtle backs it tRump will have to sign it. nt yaesu Feb 2019 #10
GOP senators need to grow a spine and force Turtle to vote to override the Idiot's veto onetexan Feb 2019 #13
He should be. He overplayed his hand and got less than he could have had a couple of months ago. jcmaine72 Feb 2019 #11
Even if ne says he will sign it NOW, he could change his mind in BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #14
It's all Kabuki theater, watoos Feb 2019 #16
This crap gives Kabuki a bad name. Harker Feb 2019 #21
You notice how the money on offer just keeps going down? Down, down, down... Hekate Feb 2019 #19
A bit from the article irisblue Feb 2019 #23
Doesn't matter. If he vetoes, congress will override. Mcconnell won't sit on it this time. PSPS Feb 2019 #24
I don't believe that the Republicans in Congress HopeAgain Feb 2019 #26
No one is happy or thrilled getting their ass handed to them underpants Feb 2019 #27
Who cares? Trump is a worse negotiator than Isiah Thomas WhoWoodaKnew Feb 2019 #28
I wouldn't give him a dime for a wall. We should have pressed for DACA agreement. walkingman Feb 2019 #29
Wrong again, Mr. Groper MissMillie Feb 2019 #30
I want p****gr*****g to be declared a National Emergency. nt NCjack Feb 2019 #32
Trump is not happy or thrilled in being a loser LawnKorn Feb 2019 #38
McTurtle ain't playing anymore. MFGsunny Feb 2019 #40
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