This is a developing story. Return to this post for updates.
UPDATE 1
President Trump will not sign the spending bill passed by the Senate last night and before the House today, according to Hosue Speaker Paul Ryan who just left a meeting in the Oval office with the president.
UPDATE 2
A statement earlier today from the White House:
UPDATE 3NEW statement from WH on the CR. Trump meeting with House Republicans at noon. Trump doesn't want to sign a bill without border security/wall funding pic.twitter.com/iN8GkTosm5— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) December 20, 2018
Last night, immigrant-hating conservatives were furious with the president when indications were that he would sign a stopgap spending bill that did not include funds for a border wall.
Trump may be buckling to the pressure.
UPDATE 4
Via Manu Raju Senior Congressional Correspondent, CNN:
Manu Raju
WH signaled yesterday Trump would sign bill. Cornyn emerged from a lunch with Vice President Mike Pence and told me that President Trump will sign a clean CR. “He will sign a clean CR,” Cornyn said yesterday
Susan Collins almost dropped her handbag as she gestured disbelief at word, delivered to her by reporters, that Trump would not sign the continuing resolution unless border wall money was added. “Did he just say that? Ugh, are you ruining my life,” she asked? @tedbarrettcnn
UPDATE 6
Via Daily Beast:
Rush Limbaugh: Trump told me he’s getting border-wall money or he’s shutting down the government.
UPDATE 7Rush Limbaugh: Trump told me he’s getting border-wall money or he’s shutting down the government.
Video. Ryan looks like a sad puppy here. Trump's poodle to the end.
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) December 20, 2018
UPDATE 8
UPDATE 9“Any measure that funds the government must include border security,” @realDonaldTrump says. “This is the promise every lawmaker made.”— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) December 20, 2018
“We have no choice.”
Trump tweet before signing farm bill:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2018
I know somone in the forest service. When the government shuts down they don't mind at all because it is essentially like a paid vacation. They don't come to work but all their pay is still accrued for once the government opens again, then they get a huge paycheck for all the time it was shut down as if they had actually been working.
ReplyDeleteEssentially government shutdown = paid vacation for as long as it is shut down for.
My public sector friends always go to Facebook and talk about the outrage, but they have the same scenario. And they make pensions at young ages and can double dip. They are starting to be less and less my friends unfortunately.
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