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Trump must insist on protecting our border. That's why we elected him POTUS.

Yes. This will totally be accomplished by a useless wall.

Useful, useless, that's what I voted for. And WE WON.

GOP senators emerged from the closed-door meeting in visible disbelief that President Trump is refusing to sign a seven-week stopgap measure to fund the government that cleared the chamber by a voice vote less than 24 hours ago.

Senate GOP leadership appeared confident on Wednesday that Trump would sign the stopgap, which will fund approximately 25 percent of the government, as long as they kept poison pill policy riders out of it.

But Trump, under fire from conservative pundits and lawmakers, reversed course Thursday.

“Are you ruining my life?” GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) joked to The Hill when told about the decision.
“No. I don’t think the votes are [there], ugh. We can’t have a government shutdown, period,” she said, when asked if there was an alternative to the Senate bill. “It’s never good. How many times do we have to learn that?”

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Anonymous wrote:Many Senators have already left town and are not planning on returning before the 3rd. Many Representatives have left town and, for those who are not in the next Congress, are likely not coming back, so the House will be short votes anyhow.

Either Trump signs this before he leaves for Mar-A-Lago, or else he will live with optics of his fun in the sun while the government is 'closed."

Worse than that. Interior isn’t funded. So all the Americans headed to federal parks for Christmas just had their plans cancelled. Plus the Smithsonian, the national monuments, etc. While Trump golfs and the secret service guards him, but does not get paid. It does not get any more “let them eat cake” than that.

Remember the 2013 shutdown where the 90 year old WWII vets were not able to see the memorial? Now imagine if on top of that, it was peak tourist season in lots of the national parks. And Obama was in Hawaii golfing and ignoring the problem. And was proudly calling it the obama shutdown. The blowback will be ugly.

I thought the Rs were so mad about that they made some special rule that parks wouldn't be closed off during a shutdown. It resulted in lots of damage to parks, since there were no Rangers keeping people in line.

On the news this morning, they said parks would be open, but not staffed, the buildings closed, no restrooms/food concessions, etc. So if you go, bring your own trail maps!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Senators have already left town and are not planning on returning before the 3rd. Many Representatives have left town and, for those who are not in the next Congress, are likely not coming back, so the House will be short votes anyhow.

Either Trump signs this before he leaves for Mar-A-Lago, or else he will live with optics of his fun in the sun while the government is 'closed."

Worse than that. Interior isn’t funded. So all the Americans headed to federal parks for Christmas just had their plans cancelled. Plus the Smithsonian, the national monuments, etc. While Trump golfs and the secret service guards him, but does not get paid. It does not get any more “let them eat cake” than that.

Remember the 2013 shutdown where the 90 year old WWII vets were not able to see the memorial? Now imagine if on top of that, it was peak tourist season in lots of the national parks. And Obama was in Hawaii golfing and ignoring the problem. And was proudly calling it the obama shutdown. The blowback will be ugly.

Don’t they just shut down the buildings and let everyone in free in the parks? Who goes to a national park for Xmas?

Nope, they put up a sign that says "Due to the Shutdown the park/national monument etc. is closed." And yes, for the holidays many families do tourism, including national parks and monuments.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Senators have already left town and are not planning on returning before the 3rd. Many Representatives have left town and, for those who are not in the next Congress, are likely not coming back, so the House will be short votes anyhow.

Either Trump signs this before he leaves for Mar-A-Lago, or else he will live with optics of his fun in the sun while the government is 'closed."

Worse than that. Interior isn’t funded. So all the Americans headed to federal parks for Christmas just had their plans cancelled. Plus the Smithsonian, the national monuments, etc. While Trump golfs and the secret service guards him, but does not get paid. It does not get any more “let them eat cake” than that.

Remember the 2013 shutdown where the 90 year old WWII vets were not able to see the memorial? Now imagine if on top of that, it was peak tourist season in lots of the national parks. And Obama was in Hawaii golfing and ignoring the problem. And was proudly calling it the obama shutdown. The blowback will be ugly.

I thought the Rs were so mad about that they made some special rule that parks wouldn't be closed off during a shutdown. It resulted in lots of damage to parks, since there were no Rangers keeping people in line.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Trump must insist on protecting our border. That's why we elected him POTUS.

Yes. This will totally be accomplished by a useless wall.

Useful, useless, that's what I voted for. And WE WON.

Are you referring to 2016? Or to 2018?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Trump must insist on protecting our border. That's why we elected him POTUS.

Yes. This will totally be accomplished by a useless wall.

Useful, useless, that's what I voted for. And WE WON.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Trump must insist on protecting our border. That's why we elected him POTUS.

Yes. This will totally be accomplished by a useless wall.

Useful, useless, that's what I voted for. And WE WON.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Trump must insist on protecting our border. That's why we elected him POTUS.

Yes. This will totally be accomplished by a useless wall.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Senators have already left town and are not planning on returning before the 3rd. Many Representatives have left town and, for those who are not in the next Congress, are likely not coming back, so the House will be short votes anyhow.

Either Trump signs this before he leaves for Mar-A-Lago, or else he will live with optics of his fun in the sun while the government is 'closed."

Worse than that. Interior isn’t funded. So all the Americans headed to federal parks for Christmas just had their plans cancelled. Plus the Smithsonian, the national monuments, etc. While Trump golfs and the secret service guards him, but does not get paid. It does not get any more “let them eat cake” than that.

Remember the 2013 shutdown where the 90 year old WWII vets were not able to see the memorial? Now imagine if on top of that, it was peak tourist season in lots of the national parks. And Obama was in Hawaii golfing and ignoring the problem. And was proudly calling it the obama shutdown. The blowback will be ugly.

Don’t they just shut down the buildings and let everyone in free in the parks? Who goes to a national park for Xmas?

Anonymous wrote:
Trump must insist on protecting our border. That's why we elected him POTUS.

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How ironic, the Border Patrol won't be paid because of the shutdown. I thought Trump was all hoooah about the border?

You don't know much about government shutdowns, do you?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many Senators have already left town and are not planning on returning before the 3rd. Many Representatives have left town and, for those who are not in the next Congress, are likely not coming back, so the House will be short votes anyhow.

Either Trump signs this before he leaves for Mar-A-Lago, or else he will live with optics of his fun in the sun while the government is 'closed."

Worse than that. Interior isn’t funded. So all the Americans headed to federal parks for Christmas just had their plans cancelled. Plus the Smithsonian, the national monuments, etc. While Trump golfs and the secret service guards him, but does not get paid. It does not get any more “let them eat cake” than that.

Remember the 2013 shutdown where the 90 year old WWII vets were not able to see the memorial? Now imagine if on top of that, it was peak tourist season in lots of the national parks. And Obama was in Hawaii golfing and ignoring the problem. And was proudly calling it the obama shutdown. The blowback will be ugly.