After More Failed Negotiations, Pelosi To Push Individual Bills To Reopen Agencies

Source: Talking Points Memo

By CATHERINE LUCEY and Lisa Mascaro
January 7, 2019 7:16 am

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With no weekend breakthrough to end a prolonged partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump is standing firm in his border wall funding demands and newly empowered House Democrats are planning to step up pressure on Trump and Republican lawmakers to reopen the government.


Trump showed no signs of budging on his demand for more than $5 billion for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, though on Sunday he did offer to build it with steel rather than concrete, a concession Democrats panned.

With the shutdown lurching into a third week, many Republicans watched nervously from the sidelines as hundreds of thousands of federal workers went without pay and government disruptions hit the lives of ordinary Americans.

White House officials affirmed Trump's funding request in a letter to Capitol Hill after a meeting Sunday with senior congressional aides led by Vice President Mike Pence at the White House complex yielded little progress. The letter from Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russell Vought sought funding for a "steel barrier on the Southwest border."

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And to add this quote from the asshole narcissistic megalomaniac psychopath .................

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Trump also asserted that he could relate to the plight of the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who aren't getting paid, though he acknowledged they will have to "make adjustments" to deal with the shutdown shortfall.




Then I think that he should have had to walk to Camp David, forfeit his check, and turn the lights off in the white house......................to "make adjustments"...................


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..........................