Shutdown looms as Nancy Pelosi rejects Trump's demand for border wall

[workinclasszero]

By JOHN PARKINSON Dec 6, 2018, 1:22 PM ET

As Democrats wait to take over the majority next year, House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi says that lawmakers should punt a debate over the president's demand for a border wall to next fall in order to avert a partial government shutdown later this month.

Rejecting President Donald Trump's $5 billion demand for a border security, Pelosi told reporters she would refuse an offer to permanently resolve the standoff over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in exchange for any money for a border wall.

“They’re two different subjects,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said, expressing a desire to decouple the debate over DREAMers from a fight over the border wall.

Throughout negotiations, Trump has repeated his demands for $5 billion toward building a wall at the southern border, threatening to shut down the government if Congress sends him a continuing resolution that does not include funding for border security.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/shutdown-looms-nancy-pelosi-rejects-trumps-demand-border/story?id=59652105

[ffr]

1. To build a wall over rivers and canyons, just to be torn down by Mother Nature

or the next generation.

A waste of money.

[Me.]

2. She'll Get What She Wants

or he'll get bupkis

[TheBlackAdder]

3. A shutdown later this month, when the Republicans are still in charge of all chambers? Go for it.

[workinclasszero]

7. Right

Stupid Dumpster

[gratuitous]

11. It's just so weird how it's all the Democrats' fault four weeks before they take over

Why didn't the Republicans do anything when they had absolute, untrammeled power for the last two years?

It's like no matter what the story or what the circumstances are, the media always tell their narratives from the Republican perspective.

[peggysue2]

4. Good to hear that Pelosi is hanging tough

The idea of being blackmailed by Trump and his stupid, outrageously expensive wall for a resolution on DACA is as low as you get. Pelosi is correct: the issues are two separate subjects and should remain as such. The one issue involves the lives and futures of the DREAMERS; the other Donald Trump's massive hubris.

If the Trumpster wants to close down the Government, let him take the responsibility for the havoc that will entail and the spike in his disapproval numbers.

Pelosi is calling his bluff. Good for her.

[RKP5637]

5. Money would be better spent building a wall around Trump and his plastic wife. n/t

[wasupaloopa]

6. George Patton said fixed fortifications are

a monument to the stupidity of man,

[Bilegurken]

10. Trump:

"Make mine yuuuuuuge!"

[Still In Wisconsin]

12. Yes... the border wall is TRUMP's Maginot Line.

If it was ever built (and it won't be) it would be about as effective, too.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Just what I was going to say.

A $5 Billion dollar boondoggle. Such a ridiculous waste of time and money.

[Cha]

8. Good! Fuck OFF trump and your stupid WALL.

[elmac]

9. Do what we must to stop the fascist republicans, never, ever give in.

they want to destroy everything good, fight them at every turn even if a shutdown is the only way.

[spanone]

14. Go for it rethugs....you control house, senate and white house....shut it down