The federal government entered a partial shutdown at 12:01 a.m. EST on Saturday because President Donald Trump would not budge on his attempt to get the American people to pay for the border wall he spent his entire 2016 campaign promising Mexico would pay to build.
Both chambers of the Republican-controlled Congress adjourned on Friday without agreeing to a bill to fund the government, and no plan to reach a compromise that satisfies Trump’s demand for wall funding. The House passed a short-term budget bill with the $5.7 billion the White House wanted, and the Senate adjourned without achieving the 60-vote majority it needed to overcome a filibuster to pass that bill. Earlier in the week, the Senate unanimously passed a spending bill without wall funding.
But this putative conflict — in which most congressional Republicans align with Trump’s push for a wall and all Democrats refuse to fund the project — is unnecessary posturing that conceals the root cause of the shutdown that the president embraced last week: Trump failed to fulfill his signature campaign promise of building a great wall and getting Mexico to pay for it.
He repeated this promise over and over. Trump told a crowd in South Carolina, “You know all of these guys say ‘oh they’ll never pay’ — of course they’ll pay. If you have the right guy negotiating it, that they’ll pay.” The president also said Mexico would be “thrilled to be paying for the wall.”
Okay, he was wrong about getting Mexico to pay for the wall.
Enough pedantic nit-picking like it matters: If the wall gets built, the wall gets built: The whole point of his campaign was getting a wall built.
Jose Johnson
Wall is already funded. This is about showing Americans who (they) work for and it isn't America. (They) are subversive traitors that work for a different country and this is the entire point of this charade.
This board is damn shit. It's nothing but leftypol spam. And anyone with half a brain can notice how the press always blame these things one the right. When the Republican congress couldn't reach a deal with Obama, it was all their fault. But this time, it's the president's fault. They're only consistent in their corruption.
He can impose 50 fee on tourists to earn $350 millions annually.
Chase Price
lol at at the claim that leftists seek compromise. The commie Dems literally get everything they want in these budgets. The right gets nothing. It's been this way for ages. The status quo in this country is cancer. It can only lead to ruin.
Tyler Robinson
haha Your commie site is dying. Garbage news outlets and communities deserve to go under.
When you compromise with an injustice, you still end up with an injustice. This idiocy about commies getting everything they want reminds me of the old story of the Jew in Nazi Germany who loved reading the Party newspapers, because all the stories about how powerful Jews were made him feel less terrified.
Luke Nguyen
Even if Mexico handed us 50 billion dollars and said build the wall, Congress still needs to vote on budget allocation. Point is this was inevitable unless he executive ordered it or did it on secrecy, in which case you'd call him a dictator
Joseph Butler
Q > “What happens when you can no longer trust those elected to represent you?”
A > ARTICLE lll. SECTION. 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Aid and Comfort stated in ARTICLE lll. SECTION 3. defined as,
To render assistance or counsel. Any act that deliberately strengthens or tends to strengthen enemies of the United States, or that weakens or tends to weaken the power of the United States to resist and attack such enemies is characterized as aid and comfort.
Article 3, section 3, clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution specifies that the giving of aid and comfort to the enemy is an element in the crime of Treason. Aid and comfort may consist of substantial assistance or the mere attempt to provide some support; actual help or the success of the enterprise is not relevant.
Levi Edwards
This doesn't apply to anyone. Trump represents the Right, he's doing what his voters want. Pelosi, Schumer, etc represent the Left. They're doing what their voters want. This would only apply if someone did something absolutely no one wanted, and even so no one has been tried for treason since WWII.
Jackson Nelson
then why did he refuse to sign a bill both parties agreed on?
Because Trump's Right wing voters want a wall and both parties delivered a bill without one. Does that answer your question?
John Scott
i guess his voters don't understand how government works and just want a russian style government
Blake Gomez
also trumps voters wanted mexico to pay for the wall. how is making american tax payers do it going to make mexico pay for it?
Brayden Fisher
Most of the country is fine with a wall as long as there is a path to citizenship for a set number of illegals. This is something BOTH sides of voters want. Yet congress has not delivered this whatsoever.
Mexico signed in of a new NAFTA. Trump said over and over Mexico would pay through trade deals and that counts as paying for the wall.
Jaxson Bennett
you dumb. they'll pay once the wall goes up to regain trade. Them saying they won't pay is just them hedging their bets that the wall will never go up.
Once they see the wall, they'll shit themselves at the implication and will submit to Trump.
signing a trade deal is not getting mexico to pay for a fence. i don't buy food on special from the grocery store and say the store paid for my gas because the money i saved.
Chase Diaz
Trump has said over and over again that Mexico will pay for the wall "one way or another" and has maintained that the money we are getting back from Mexico via a trade deal is how they will end up paying for a wall in the end. These are his words, not mine.
Look I know you are biased here but at least try to see the big picture instead of finding whatever way you can to discredit what is going on and shift blame to one side or another.
That's a wall, user. I know using words like "fence" that Schumer and Pelosi like throwing around make it sound like it won't do anything, but that sort of nonsense is clearly the bias I'm talking about here. Drop that shit.
Alright we're done here. I hope some day you'll wake up and realize how much of a partisan ass you're being
Carson Ramirez
im sorry do i say i support dems? i don't understand the fucking kneejerk that because i call out someone on something it automatically means i support the complete opposite
Then just an ass, how bout that? I hope some day you wake up and realize how much of an ass you're been.
Xavier Gonzalez
its totally Blumps border wall, not our refusal to negotiate!
Carson Martin
they did negotiate. sent the resulting bill to trumps desk and trump refused.
Ian Morales
This. I've been saying this over and over again. It's like getting served up a plate of shit at a restaurant and being blamed for sending it back or complaining. Congress' job is to work together to make something good. The idea wasn't to remain strictly partisan at all but somehow it's Trump's fault it is partisan. Trump has agreed to sign a DACA bill that had the wall funding in it. And yet Congress can't even do that.
You're simply delusional. The literal Marxists in the Dem party get everything they want. That's just objective reality. Nevermind, you're completely crazy.
Lucas Lopez
lol at the leftist that thinks he's anything but an evil sack of shit.
fences arent sturdy. you can easily destroy a fence. a wall is strong. being able to see through it doesnt make it a fence. a bollard wall isnt easily removed with explosives and can be seen through. unlike a stone wall like you imagined.
calling it a fence is just parroting dnc talking points. dont be shocked when people associate you with the people you parrot.
Two leftist sides negotiated with each other and found that they still wanted open borders.
Andrew Collins
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John Allen
That is quite a generalisation. You can have a sturdy fence or a weak crumbling wall.
From a pragmatic point of view, what both mexico and the USA are desperately missing is an effective barrier between their two countries that prevents drugs and illegal immigrants coming across.
