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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Trump heads to Camp David as shutdown enters third week
Source: Washington Post
President Trump heads to Camp David as shutdown enters third week
By Felicia Sonmez January 6 at 12:38 PM
With the partial government shutdown dragging into its third week, President Trump on Sunday headed to Camp David for a White House staff retreat at which border security and other topics are on the agenda.
The meeting comes one day after Vice President Pence, top White House officials and senior congressional aides emerged empty-handed after more than two hours of negotiations on ending the stalemate.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Sunday morning, Trump again raised the prospect of declaring a national emergency and said he may do so depending on what happens over the next few days.
In a bid to force Democrats hand, Trump has said that he is considering declaring an emergency to begin wall construction without congressional approval. The legality of such a move is unclear, however, and the president would almost certainly face immediate legal challenges in the courts.
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By Felicia Sonmez January 6 at 12:38 PM
With the partial government shutdown dragging into its third week, President Trump on Sunday headed to Camp David for a White House staff retreat at which border security and other topics are on the agenda.
The meeting comes one day after Vice President Pence, top White House officials and senior congressional aides emerged empty-handed after more than two hours of negotiations on ending the stalemate.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Sunday morning, Trump again raised the prospect of declaring a national emergency and said he may do so depending on what happens over the next few days.
In a bid to force Democrats hand, Trump has said that he is considering declaring an emergency to begin wall construction without congressional approval. The legality of such a move is unclear, however, and the president would almost certainly face immediate legal challenges in the courts.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-heads-to-camp-david-as-shutdown-enters-third-week/2019/01/06/22af03c0-11c3-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html
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President Trump heads to Camp David as shutdown enters third week (Original Post)
Eugene
Jan 2019
OP
He hates it there--finds it boring. He wants to go to Mar-a-Lago, but his stupid shutdown
tblue37
Jan 2019
#7
metroins
(2,550 posts)1. Why is he at Camp David?
Isn't that where the real foreign policy usually goes down?
Seems like an odd place for Trump to go.
tblue37
(65,483 posts)7. He hates it there--finds it boring. He wants to go to Mar-a-Lago, but his stupid shutdown
has made that untenable.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Who will be doing the Food Service?
That place is part of the Park Service is it not?
flotsam
(3,268 posts)3. From the wayback machine:
https://www.si.com/vault/issue/42765/23
January 24,1955
" From the terrace to the edge of the wood line, the cleared lawn measures about 140 yards and runs to about the same yardage in width. This is hardly enough room for even one good golf hole, but Robert Trent Jones, the golf architect who was called in, dealt with the spatial problem with fine imagination. At the left of the clearing Jones built an Augusta-type green, and then created four tees along the right-hand edgethe first, 100 yards distant and 15 feet above the level of the green; the second, 140 yards distant, 20 feet above; the third, 120 yards distant, 20 feet below; and the fourth, 80 yards distant and 15 feet below. Carrying his mashie and pitching irons, a player hits his shot from each of the four tees, in counter-clockwise order, then moves up to the green to hole out his four balls. It offers a splendid variety of shots and no confusion in a foursome as long as each player uses a clearly distinguishable set of ballslike ones imprinted with MR. PRESIDENT."
January 24,1955
" From the terrace to the edge of the wood line, the cleared lawn measures about 140 yards and runs to about the same yardage in width. This is hardly enough room for even one good golf hole, but Robert Trent Jones, the golf architect who was called in, dealt with the spatial problem with fine imagination. At the left of the clearing Jones built an Augusta-type green, and then created four tees along the right-hand edgethe first, 100 yards distant and 15 feet above the level of the green; the second, 140 yards distant, 20 feet above; the third, 120 yards distant, 20 feet below; and the fourth, 80 yards distant and 15 feet below. Carrying his mashie and pitching irons, a player hits his shot from each of the four tees, in counter-clockwise order, then moves up to the green to hole out his four balls. It offers a splendid variety of shots and no confusion in a foursome as long as each player uses a clearly distinguishable set of ballslike ones imprinted with MR. PRESIDENT."
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. Oh good! I am so glad he is finally going to get some R&R.
He so deserves it after all this madness that he has inflicted upon the nation.
Resign motherfucker!
suffragette
(12,232 posts)5. So, he creates a chaotic and harmful shutdown, then runs away to ride around in a golf cart and hit
golf balls with people who will only always agree with him, likely out of fear of one of his tantrums.
Pretty much the definition of a kid throwing a fit and taking his ball home.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)6. It's probably a "time-out"..
He hates the place