House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy: Pelosi and Democrats caved on Trump's border barrier demand

[DonViejo]

Source: CNBC

"The Democrats have now agreed to more than 55 miles of new barrier being built," says the California Republican.

"The Democrats changed course when they said, 'There would be no detention beds,'" says McCarthy. "They backed away on that."

Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | @BerkeleyJr
Published 31 Mins Ago Updated 5 Mins Ago

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday characterized the tentative government funding deal as Democrats caving on President Donald Trump's demand for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had said "'no money for a wall;' that's not the case," the California Republican said in a "Squawk Box" interview. "The Democrats have now agreed to more than 55 miles of new barrier being built."

Congressional negotiators said they reached a tentative deal late Monday to fund the government and avoid another shutdown. A congressional source told CNBC it would put about $1.4 billion toward physical barriers, but not the concrete wall that the president wants.

Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to build 215 miles of wall along the southern U.S. border led to a funding stalemate in December and a record-long, 35-day partial government shutdown.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/12/kevin-mccarthy-democrats-caved-on-trumps-border-barrier-demand.html

[Loki Liesmith]

1. lol ok Kevin

[maxrandb]

2. Gee, Kevin McCarthy sounds a lot like some posters on DU n/t

[NurseJackie]

3. Amen to that!

[LogicFirst]

4. Caving

it is not. Shame on your headline. It is compromise. Democrats know how and when to compromise.

[brush]

25. Funding, a lot less than trump wanted, it will build...

55 miles out of two thousand miles. If he calls that caving, let him be the fool.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Whatever . . . . . . . .

Trump will still veto the "compromise" and shut down the government again.

[leftynyc]

6. LMAO - maybe donnie's slack jawed base

will buy that BS (as well as some DUers who were whining) but anyone with a brain just sees what the Dems are offering is less than the previous time. Mustn't reward bad behavior.

[MontanaMama]

7. Bless your li'l heart Kevin.

Insert Nancy clap here.

[cstanleytech]

8. Kevin is going to have to work on his on putting lipstick on a pig more because Trump still failed

to get the 5 billion he demanded last month when he took those hostages.

[MontanaFarmer]

9. A desperate attempt by McCarthy

to sell this bill to trump, before Hannity and Coultergeist get ahold of him. They know this is a bad look for trump, given what he already turned down, but they also know they can't have another shutdown. Hilarious.

[salin]

10. That was how I read it, as well.

Though I think Hannity squawking against supporting the compromise.

[DeminPennswoods]

20. Yes, telling Trump he "won"

instead of the truth. It won't take more than a few minutes for Trump to convince himself to believe it.

The fact is, DHS asked for 1.3B in their first budget request and that's just about what they got.

[DirtEdonE]

11. Whether it's true of not

This is just more troll-feed for the deplorables.

There should be no compromise with traitors. If they wanted another shutdown, they should have it. Look how well it worked out for them last time.

Now, they have another "victory" to crow about.

Build the wall around the Democratic House and Senate delegations and allow NO illegal alien trump ideas to enter.

[turbinetree]

12. Hey McCarthy...................think 240 in that pin head between your ears if you can..........

you really are an idiot...........................

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

[winstars]

13. "These are not the Droids you are looking for" Whatever, you asshole!!!

[leftofcool]

14. Not quite, Kevin but you keep trying.

[LakeSuperiorView]

15. Consider the source...

Hypocrite McCarthy is ignoring that the current offer is REDUCED from what they were offered earlier....

[yaesu]

16. no matter what kind of deal is reached tRump and his fascists will turn it into some great victory

and he will call it a wall, his peeps will believe him. This is why I'm against working with repugs on anything. Shut tRump down like they shut Pres. Obama down.

[rurallib]

17. If Trump vetoes it, it will make both he and McCarthy look like total fools

Nice set up, Kevie

[watoos]

18. It's tough for Democrats,

when the entire right wing corporate controlled M$M is complicit with Republicans.

Absolutely miniscule coverage of Trump employing hundreds of undocumented workers. Just that coverage would be devastating to Trump. I saw one segment on Ari Melber that covered this.

If these immigrants are so dangerous why does Trump hire so many of them? The rest of his workers he hires with visas, American workers aren't good enough or cheap enough for Trump.

[c-rational]

30. +1, corporate controlled M$M. This needs to be undone before the planet is Undone.

[Marcuse]

33. Even Ari and Rachel work for Comcast Corporation.

https://www.nasdaq.com/article/your-complete-guide-to-everything-owned-by-comcast-cm859101

Its most prominent media company is NBCUniversal, which owns and operates a slew of television network companies.

In its portfolio, NBCUniversal has the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network, which includes NBC Entertainment, NBC News, NBC Sports, and NBC Studios. It also owns the NBCUniversal Television Group (Universal Television, NBCUniversal Television Distribution, and NBC-owned local television stations around the country), as well as NBCUniversal Cable (includes popular channels like Bravo, E!, USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, mun2, Chiller, SyFy, Sleuth, and Universal HD).

The company also owns The Weather Channel Companies with private equity firm Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group (BX). This includes the popular Weather Channel, and its interactive components www.weather.com , and mobile and desktop versions.

[c-rational]

34. Noted, but they and Lawrence are the exceptions. Ari still gives too much time to the deplorables.

[mahina]

40. This. Remember the MSM would not let President Obama's thoughts be heard in his own voice for more t

This troll is broadcast 24-7.

What can we do about that?

[PatSeg]

19. Who knew Kevin McCarthy

was still good for a laugh!!!

[lark]

21. Lie, spin, hurt average Americans, rinse and repeat.

That is all these asshole repugs do, oh yeah, I forgot, sow hate, especially the racist kind.

They lost and this is the spin to try and get orange assmouth to sign the bill. Go ahead, repugs, if it makes you feel better. Only the most misinformed and stupid believe a thing they say.

[Marcuse]

22. Spinning

[Cold War Spook]

23. Why am I singing Crimson and Clover?

And eating Twinkies?

[bdamomma]

24. exactly

nt

[zaj]

26. This is good news...

It's a sign that it will get passed. And sounds like a reasonable compromise.

[BlueIdaho]

27. These are serious times...

Poverty, healthcare access, an economy that only works for the very rich, supporting our international allies and combating our global foes, and all Kevin can do is apply some pathetic loser spin.

C’mon Kevin, another government shutdown will only make all of these things worse. Grow up and act like an adult. This ain’t the playground - it’s the US House of Representatives.

Kevin... 🤨

[PeeJ52]

28. It looks like the perfect deal...

I haven't seen it, but the reactions are all over the place from joy and despair from the same ends of each spectrum. I don't think anyone has had time to get together to get their stories straight yet.

[irresistable]

29. I think that it allows Trump to claim victory.

[stopbush]

32. tRump will declare victory no matter what they included in the bill.

That is, IF he decides to sign it.

[irresistable]

35. I agree that he may not, but he can now claim that Democrats funded a wall.

[itcfish]

38. Congress Controls

The pursestrings, and Democrats control congress, so they can say the Democrats funded the wall all they want.

[irresistable]

39. They did fund a fence.

[c-rational]

31. And yet we still do not know if the orange dumpster will sign the bill. Keeping people on the edge

of their seats is no way to govern.

[Talitha]

36. From what I heard this morning,

From what I heard this morning, the Dems agreement [to fund 55 miles of barrier] will merely fulfill a previous agreement. It will complete a section of barrier that was agreed upon but never completed. Sorry, but I didn't hear under which which administration the previous agreement was made.

[Javaman]

37. so kevie, hows spin class going? nt