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Senate Republicans blocked a House-passed package to reopen the federal government for a second time in as many weeks on Tuesday.
 
Democratic Sens. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) and Ben Cardin (Md.) asked for consent to take up a package of bills that would reopen the federal government.
 
One bill would fund the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 8, while the other would fund the rest of the impacted departments and agencies through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. 
 
Under Senate rules, any senator can ask for consent to vote on or pass a bill, but any senator can object. McConnell blocked the two bills, saying the Senate wouldn't "participate in something that doesn't lead to an outcome."
 
McConnell for weeks has said he would not bring legislation to the floor on the shutdown unless there was a deal between President Trump and Democrats on border security, the issue that has triggered the shutdown. McConnell has described other votes as "show votes."
 
"The solution to this is a negotiation between the one person in the country who can sign something into law, the president of the United States, and our Democratic colleagues," McConnell said Tuesday.
 
Roughly a quarter of the government has been shut down since Dec. 22 over an entrenched fight on funding for Trump’s proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
 
The Senate passed a stopgap bill late last year by a voice vote, but it was rejected by the White House because it didn’t include extra border money.
 
Trump is demanding more than $5 billion for his signature wall. Democratic leadership has pointed to $1.3 billion as their cap and argued that it must go to fencing.
 
House Democrats passed their package to fully reopen the government earlier this month and have begun passing individual appropriations bills as they try to ratchet up pressure on Republicans to break with the president and support the legislation. But those bills are expected to go nowhere in the GOP-led Senate.
 
McConnell sought to drive a wedge between Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Democrats earlier Tuesday, characterizing the newly minted House leader as making border security “take a back seat to the political whims of the far left.â€
 
“Here in the Senate my Democratic colleagues have an important choice to make. They could stand with common sense border experts, with federal workers and with their own past voting records, by the way, or they could continue to remain passive spectators complaining from the sidelines, as the Speaker refuses to negotiate with the White House,†McConnell said from the Senate floor.
 
Talks between Trump and congressional leadership are at a standstill after the president walked out of a White House meeting last week when Pelosi told him that Democrats would not consider border wall funding even if he fully reopened the government.
 
Democrats are trying to build pressure on McConnell to break with Trump and move legislation, something Senate GOP leadership say the careful Republican leader will not do.
 
Though several senators are publicly picking their own ideas, Sen. John Thune (S.D.), the No. 2 Senate Republican, said on Tuesday that hasn’t resulted in much pressure from within the caucus for McConnell to change his strategy.
 
“Our members are, you know, they’re going to make their positions known, nobody will be shy about that,†Thune told reporters. “But in the end, having a vote in the Senate I think has to be on something that not only can pass here but that can be signed into law by the president.â€
 
But Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) urged McConnell to get involved in the talks on Tuesday, touting his previous role as a deal-maker who could resolve sticky political stalemates.
 
“There's only one person who can help America break through this gridlock: Leader McConnell. For the past month Leader McConnell has been content to hide behind the president, essentially giving him a veto over what comes to the floor of the Senate,†Schumer said.
 
He added that if McConnell brought up the House bills to fully reopen the government he believed they would receive a “significant,†“veto-proof†majority. McConnell has said the House bills cannot pass the Senate.
 
Cardin also appealed to McConnell after the GOP senator blocked his request on Tuesday, describing the Senate as “missing in action.â€
 
“We’re a co-equal branch of government. Let us speak about opening government. There are members on both sides who understand that we can debate border security and we can reach agreements, but you can’t do that with a partial government shutdown,†Cardin said.
 
Several GOP senators have backed either taking up the House bills or passing a continuing resolution (CR) to reopen most or all of the government while Democratic leadership and Trump continue to fight over border security.
 
A group of Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), were negotiating last week on a plan to reopen most of the government in exchange for the Senate taking up Trump's border request, including an additional $7 billion sent in a request earlier this month. To help win over Democrats, there were talks about a deal on “Dreamers,†immigrants who came to the country illegally as children.
 
But those talks derailed, senators said, because of intransigence by Trump and Pelosi. A bipartisan group, involving many of the same senators, also met on Monday night to discuss a similar framework but made little progress toward breaking the shutdown stalemate.
 
Trump on Monday wasn’t interested in the idea of temporarily reopening the government. But Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who took part in both talks, said Tuesday that he hoped the president changed his mind.
 
“We ought to take the president’s request, immediately consider it … add to it whatever we need to do to get a result, send it to him, sign it and in the meantime open the government up,†Alexander told WREC, a Tennessee radio station.
 
Alexander acknowledged that the idea of reopening the government for roughly three weeks wouldn’t gain traction without Trump’s support, adding, “I’m hoping the president changes his mind. This is the way you get a result.†
 
This is no longer just a Trump shutdown, the GOP owns it as well. McConnell knows that any of the bills would pass easily, because no senator wants to be on record as having voted against reopening the government,
 
If Donald really wanted that wall, he could have gotten it passed at any point during the past two years when the GOP controlled both houses. The plain fact is that this shutdown is about slowing down and keeping attention away from the investigations against him, and removing the sanctions against Russia. The deadline to rebuke the removal of the sanctions is the 19th; I would bet my life savings that Donald is going to become a lot more agreeable on the 20th.
 
This is blatant dereliction of duty, plain sabotage, obviously traitorous, and reeks of a soft coup. Fuck Donald Trump, fuck Mitch McConnell, and fuck the GOP. 

 

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2020 needs to come quickly. I feel so sorry for those who can't get paid because the president is acting like a toddler.

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republicans are sweating, the dems came out in a wave during mid terms, flipped a bunch of seats- Trump presidency is a complete failure of lies and empty promises, so they are desperate to get that piece of shit wall through to atleast make their base somewhat happy so they may come out for the 2020 election rofl if this wall doesn't get through, the dems pick will def use that during the 2020 debates- He's biggest campaign headliner was a failure lmao

 

edit: also i forgot about the investigations- true true i bet that has a lot to do with it too

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i don't understand, Republicans controlled the House for 2 years, why didn't they focused on the wall then? 

 

Because Donald doesn't give a shit about building a "wall" (I'm sure he sees the potential for kickbacks and swindling, though). It was an empty promise dangled in front our our country's closeted and open racists to get them to vote for him.

 

Right now, the "wall" is being used as a red herring. This shutdown is about getting attention off of his criminality, wasting time until the deadline to rebuke his removal of the sanctions against Russia passes, and "leverage".

 

Collins said Pence explained why Trump rejected the deal.

 

"He said that the president felt that he would lose leverage if government were reopened,"Collins said.

President Trump rejected compromise to reopen government, Sen. Collins says

 

This is basically a hostage situation.

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Low effort catering. Sad!

 

 

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And I like how the number of "hamberders" went from 300 (stated in the video) to over 1000. imstupid.png

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bloody hell, they're really going to make the nation wait another year-get him out already? what does supposed "democracy" mean when your entire nation has burned to the ground while you watched. it's bad enough that one man has all this power but the fact that people are letting him get away with it as if the hundreds of thousands of people having to sell off cars, or almost losing their homes,can wait a couple of more months for this to settle, is even more mind-boggling.  

 

It's like, "I know you can't afford to feed yourselves or your families anymore but just hold on until 2020 and if you're still around by then, there's hope! maybe." 

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