Graham sees potential for deal to end shutdown
Source: Politico
By DAVID COHEN 12/30/2018 09:32 AM EST
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday on CNN a compromise on border security that might save the day in the Senate was possible in the Senate.
At the end of the day, theres a deal to be had, he said to State of the Union host Dana Bush, adding, We need to start talking again.
Graham described the outlines of a potential deal that would exchange funding for a border wall, as sought by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, in exchange for protections for those known as Dreamers, those undocumented immigrants who have grown up in the U.S. after being brought here as young children. Those protections have been sought by Democrats on the Hill.
The battle over funding for a border wall, which the House approved but the Senate did not, has led to a partial government shutdown over the Christmas holidays, with no end in sight.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/30/graham-government-shutdown-1076882
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)I wish Graham would STFU, seriously.
Nancy P knows what she is doing. Asswipe Graham is trying to beat her to the punch inorder to save what little decency the fucked Republicans has, if any exists anymore.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)must have been born with a hinge instead of a spine.
question everything
(47,534 posts)so his opinions vary with the way he sees his chances.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)Response to DonViejo (Original post)
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watoos
(7,142 posts)Republicans rejected it. Did Dana mention that obvious fact to Lyndsey?
The Freedumb caucus isn't going to vote for that. Democrats should tell Lyndsey when he gets the Freedumb caucus to agree on the Dreamer deal to come back.
AllaN01Bear
(18,384 posts)take the wall off the table .
JDC
(10,133 posts)5 billion or nothing essentially. Today? ...Let's talk.
He is pure hot air
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Trump should endorse a specific proposal and stick to it... and anything we may have been prepared to settle has been taken off the table so we wont be returning to those terms to help alleviate the pressure on the GOP.
The gloves are off, Comrade Lindsey.
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)Trump was offered 20 - 25 billion for his wall in return for Dreamers given a path to citizenship.
Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and the Freedumb caucus rejected it.
tblue37
(65,487 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)illegal immigrants got to work at that roach infested establishment, because if he did it at his golf place in New Jersey he did it in Mar a Lago, which is a crime...............asshole.....................and after watching the clip, did Bash have on a Democrat to rebut this assholes remarks......................he keeps forgetting that John Boehner and Paul Ryan and there elite team of out racist of shit were the ones that were blocking immigration reform, for the last ten years, the record of fact says so.................... so in essence Graham.....................Go Fuck Yourself ........................
November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.....................
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Kind of ruins the whole idea for your masters, doesn't it?
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)If you want to shift some DOD money to better patrols of the border with (unarmed) drones then thats fine but otherwise stop the bullshit of trying to shift the problems your Repugnant party has created in this country onto the backs of people coming here illegally.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)and then I would never spend another cent on it. 5 Billion is a lot of money but a tiny fraction of what we waste on the military every year. I would make that trade on behalf of hundreds of thousands of young people whose life has been made miserable by Republican efforts to deport them after they grew up as Americans but for a piece of paper.
Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)The repukes dont want to deal ...at all
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)You shit in your own bed, now sleep in it.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)Sniveling cowards of the GOP are evil assholes who know their base are blacked out to Democrats, and blindly loyal to any idea their crooked party presents.
Like when a woman makes a proposal at a meeting, is ignored; then later a man makes the identical proposal to high acclaim. I bet these guys have climbed on and ridden on the backs of women all their lives.
DACA indeed. Ain't that some kill-two-birds-with-one-stone bullshit.
droidamus2
(1,699 posts)Let me guess the deal will be that the Democrat's vote for the funding for the wall and McConnell will guarantee a vote on the dreamer's in the futur.... Wait haven't the Democrats fallen for that one before. Hell no. Vote on funding the government and then have a vote on funding the wall with no amendments allowed just an up or down vote.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)Maxheader
(4,374 posts)And pelosi is saying no..End of discussion..But we did talk...
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)ANY sort of grandiose monument to the pathological narcissist claiming to be president. Part of whats wrong with this silly "wall" idea is that we all know that among other things, it is a big pay-off to the cronies.
AND protect the dreamers. Hold out for both!
paleotn
(17,956 posts)Take it or shove it, Scarlet.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)...but also repeals the Trump tax cuts. Republicans will block it and, hopefully, itll expose to their base who they really work for.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)Trump rejected the proposal - and we are going to keep forcing him to reject them until he relents.
He's weak, and we are strong - we are speaking the language his base understands.
Hey racist Right - your boy hoodwinked you, and we're gonna take out the trash.
Baltimike
(4,146 posts)Why are we amplifying this bullshit?
sfwriter
(3,032 posts)We need about 20 Republicans in the Senate to open government and the Republicans to allow the vote of course. I think we can find enough Republicans in the house.