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Originally Posted by finnbow
It's laughable that they try to blame Democrats when the GOP could not garner 50 votes in the Senate, much less 60. Lying Donnie Dotard was mostly to blame for his on-again-off-again ignorance and fecklessness.
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‘Negotiating with Jell-O’: How Trump’s shifting positions fueled the rush to a shutdown'
"In a remarkable, televised 55-minute meeting with about two dozen Democratic and Republican lawmakers earlier this month, President Trump twice proclaimed that any immigration deal would need to be “a bill of love” — setting an optimistic tone for averting a government shutdown with a bipartisan solution.
After the president ordered cameras out of the Cabinet Room that day, the group delved into the details. Kirstjen Nielsen, Trump’s homeland security secretary, and her staff passed out a four-page document on the administration’s “must haves” for any immigration bill — a hard-line list that included $18 billion for Trump’s promised border wall, eliminating the diversity visa lottery program and ending “extended family chain migration,” according to the document, which was obtained by The Washington Post.
But one person seemed surprised and alarmed by the memo: the president.
With Democrats and Republicans still in the room, Trump said that the document didn’t represent all of his positions, that he wasn’t familiar with its contents and that he didn’t appreciate being caught off-guard. He instructed the group to disregard the summary and move on, according to one of the lawmakers in the room, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation." WP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.f583e7073076
Wow. I hope Trump flies down to his fundraiser/apple polishing contest at Mar el Lago and then heads to Davos, Switzerland to rub elbows with real actual billionaires while the government is shuttered. The campaign ads for the mid-terms will write themselves.