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Title: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: mystery-ak on February 12, 2019, 02:00:18 am
Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
By Jordain Carney - 02/11/19 08:32 PM EST

Lawmakers said on Monday night that they had reached an agreement "in principle" to avoid a second partial government shutdown set to begin on Saturday.

“We’ve had a good evening. We’ve reached an agreement in principle between us on the Homeland Security and the other six bills,” Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) told reporters.

The breakthrough came after Sens. Shelby (R-Ala.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Reps. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) and Kay Granger (R-Texas)—the top members of the Senate and House Appropriations Committee—met three times on Monday night in a last-ditch effort to get a deal.

Negotiators refused to discuss the particulars of the deal and Lowey said staff were still finalizing the details. Lowey said she hopes for legislation to be released on Wednesday.

“I think everyone will say good work,” Granger said.

If negotiators are able to hold an agreement together, it would mark a dramatic U-turn from earlier Monday when both sides were still divided on two key issues: funding for physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border and a snag on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention beds.

The group of core negotiators refused to discuss how they resolved the ICE fight, after Democrats proposed a cap on the number of ICE detention beds, arguing it would force the Trump administration to focus on “serious criminals,” and that numbers were in line with those from the Obama administration.

"We worked it out in principle. We think it's going to work," Shelby said.

Shelby said the agreement includes funding for physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but declined to say how much the agreement is for or whether it's more than the $1.6 billion included in the Senate's initial Homeland Security bill.

There were signs that a break-through was imminent earlier Monday evening when Shelby and Leahy, standing side by side as they spoke to reporters, said they were closing in on a deal and could wrap up talks before Tuesday.

"We’re talking about reaching an agreement on all of it," Shelby told reporters.

Congress has until Saturday to get the seven remaining fiscal year 2019 appropriations bills to Trump's desk to fund roughly 25 percent of the federal government, including the Department of Homeland Security.

-Juliegrace Brufke contributed to this report which was updated at 8:53 p.m.

more
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/429525-lawmakers-reach-agreement-in-principle-to-avert-shutdown
Title: Lawmakers have 'agreement in principle' on border security talks
Post by: TomSea on February 12, 2019, 02:01:22 am
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Lawmakers have 'agreement in principle' on border security talks
Samuel Chamberlain

Congressional negotiators revealed Monday evening that they've reached "an agreement in principle" on border security funding and other issues that could avert a second partial government shutdown this year.

When asked if they had an agreement that President Trump would approve, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told reporters: "I think so." Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., declined to give details of the deal, but said more should be known by Wednesday. Lawmakers have until 11:59 p.m. Friday to get the agreement through both houses of Congress and signed by Trump before several Cabinet-level departments shut down and hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed.

Much of the focus will surround how much money will be allotted for Trump's long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The White House has asked for $5.7 billion for the barrier, which congressional Democrats have refused to fund. ...

Continued at: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lawmakers-have-agreement-in-principle-on-border-security-talks (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lawmakers-have-agreement-in-principle-on-border-security-talks)

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Deal reached to avert US new shutdown

Democrats and Republicans reach agreement in principle to fund the US government and avert another partial shutdown

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47207411 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47207411)

Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Sanguine on February 12, 2019, 02:08:01 am
Oh, goodie.
Title: Re: Deal Reached To Avert US New Shutdown
Post by: Wingnut on February 12, 2019, 02:08:14 am
The breakthrough came after Sens. Shelby (R-Ala.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Reps. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) and Kay Granger (R-Texas)—the top members of the Senate and House Appropriations Committee—met three times on Monday night in a last-ditch effort to get a deal.

Negotiators refused to discuss the particulars of the deal and Lowey said staff were still finalizing the details.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 02:14:08 am
Shelby said the agreement includes funding for physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but declined to say how much the agreement is for or whether it's more than the $1.6 billion included in the Senate's initial Homeland Security bill.


Yeah - if it was anywhere near the $5.7B, they’d be crowing about it.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on February 12, 2019, 02:18:01 am
Paging Ms. Pelosi, please drop the scotch and pick up the white courtesy phone.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: libertybele on February 12, 2019, 02:25:58 am
Paging Ms. Pelosi, please drop the scotch and pick up the white courtesy phone.

She's already stated that she'll sign whatever they come up with.  Of course, that way it releases her from any blame if it's not acceptable to the leftists.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on February 12, 2019, 02:27:24 am
She's already stated that she'll sign whatever they come up with. 

Someone should tell Pelosi she doesn't sign shit.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 02:28:58 am
Oh, goodie.

That would be my reaction too.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 02:30:21 am
Shelby said the agreement includes funding for physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but declined to say how much the agreement is for or whether it's more than the $1.6 billion included in the Senate's initial Homeland Security bill.


Yeah - if it was anywhere near the $5.7B, they’d be crowing about it.

I wonder who the people are that are going to say good work?
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Elderberry on February 12, 2019, 02:33:13 am
Twitter:
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Erica Werner
‏Verified account @ericawerner

The agreement reached tonight would include:

-$1.375b for border barriers (55 new miles of bollard fencing)
-Dems drop call for new cap on ICE beds for detentions in interior
-Overall cap on detention beds drops from 49,057 to 40,520

Per congressional official.

Still looking for other sources.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Elderberry on February 12, 2019, 02:35:15 am
https://www.greensboro.com/news/us_world/late-night-budget-agreement-has-lawmakers-optimistic-about-avoiding-shutdown/article_b8353f18-fcbc-5971-b18b-e46e58e725f7.html (https://www.greensboro.com/news/us_world/late-night-budget-agreement-has-lawmakers-optimistic-about-avoiding-shutdown/article_b8353f18-fcbc-5971-b18b-e46e58e725f7.html)

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Republicans were desperate to avoid another bruising shutdown. They tentatively agreed to far less money for President Donald Trump's border wall than the White House's $5.7 billion wish list, settling for a figure of about $1.4 billion, according to a senior congressional aide.

Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on February 12, 2019, 02:39:19 am
I think the democrats are spooked ... a 52% approval rating and more than 30,000 show up in El Paso for a Trump rally .... 20,000+ watching outside on large screens.

The venue holds 8,000...but the fire department took mercy and let 10,000 in.   :laugh:



Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 02:42:46 am
Someone should tell Pelosi she doesn't sign shit.


Whenever bills pass the House and Senate, the Speaker and President of the Senate (or Pro Tempore) sign them to be delivered to the President for his signature. I learned that in 8th grade civics.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on February 12, 2019, 02:46:25 am

Whenever bills pass the House and Senate, the Speaker and President of the Senate (or Pro Tempore) sign them to be delivered to the President for his signature. I learned that in 8th grade civics.

Please don't show us your notebook.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Sanguine on February 12, 2019, 02:50:48 am
Twitter:
Still looking for other sources.

Oh, hell no.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 02:50:50 am
Please don't show us your notebook.   :laugh:


I’m going to excuse your ignorance of legislative process and lame inside jokes to the fact you're ‘edging’ while you watch the El Paso rally.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 03:00:48 am
Erica Werner
‏Verified account @ericawerner

The agreement reached tonight would include:

-$1.375b for border barriers (55 new miles of bollard fencing)
-Dems drop call for new cap on ICE beds for detentions in interior
-Overall cap on detention beds drops from 49,057 to 40,520

Per congressional official.

No way!  Who is negotiating for Trump?  This is a Democratic wet dream.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: TomSea on February 12, 2019, 03:02:40 am
I agree, the bits I hear do not sound too good....
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: mystery-ak on February 12, 2019, 03:04:20 am
Erica Werner
‏Verified account @ericawerner

The agreement reached tonight would include:

-$1.375b for border barriers (55 new miles of bollard fencing)
-Dems drop call for new cap on ICE beds for detentions in interior
-Overall cap on detention beds drops from 49,057 to 40,520

Per congressional official.

No way!  Who is negotiating for Trump?  This is a Democratic wet dream.

pathetic....what is bollard fencing...
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 03:05:05 am
I agree, the bits I hear do not sound too good....

I would say to President Trump save our money because that is a waste.  And reducing cap?
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 03:06:09 am
pathetic....what is bollard fencing...

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxeeuu5GYEmYnvUADLjn6g00z1P6C8CNPblVfjv3zk3TiXrTaN)

I have to go to bed now.  I can't handle the ups and downs of Trump any longer.  He is on the border talking about all the crimes illegal immigrants are committing and shaming Democrats for not wanting to lock up criminals.  But his negotiators are undermining the very things he is saying making stupid deals.  This is ridiculous. 
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: mystery-ak on February 12, 2019, 03:06:16 am
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxeeuu5GYEmYnvUADLjn6g00z1P6C8CNPblVfjv3zk3TiXrTaN)

really
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 03:14:14 am
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxeeuu5GYEmYnvUADLjn6g00z1P6C8CNPblVfjv3zk3TiXrTaN)

really

Really.  They come in different kinds but they are meant to stop vehicles not people.  We have them on a trail near me.  Its meant to keep any motor vehicles off the trail.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 03:14:24 am
No way!  Who is negotiating for Trump?  This is a Democratic wet dream.

Art of the Deal.  Don't mess with the master realtor!
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Applewood on February 12, 2019, 03:15:21 am
Well, I expected Trump would not get the whole amount he wanted for his wall -- in a negotiation there should be give and take --  but if the rumors of the terms of the agreement are true, he and the Republicans have been hornswoggled.

Again.

And this is why I would have liked to have seen Trump's deal making skills in action instead of him running off on another rock star tour.

But...this supposedly is an agreement in principle.  Let's see what the actual agreement looks like before we rend our garments and throw ashes on our heads.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 03:16:28 am
Erica Werner
‏Verified account @ericawerner

The agreement reached tonight would include:

-$1.375b for border barriers (55 new miles of bollard fencing)
-Dems drop call for new cap on ICE beds for detentions in interior
-Overall cap on detention beds drops from 49,057 to 40,520

Per congressional official.

No way!  Who is negotiating for Trump?  This is a Democratic wet dream.


Mulvaney was brought in as acting CoS, because of his familiarity with Congress. He was on the Sunday shows, talking about other executive actions that might be taken to get funds. Now you know why. Politico seems to have had a line on the outcome, last week.....

That makes it all the more likely that Trump will be forced to choose between two unpalatable options: a bipartisan deal served up by lawmakers, or executive action that falls short of an emergency declaration. A more modest executive order has been under review by the White House counsel’s office for weeks, which Mulvaney has termed “legal executive authority.” Both choices are likely to provide much less money than what the president has been demanding for a border wall.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/07/white-house-trump-shutdown-deal-1157829 (https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/07/white-house-trump-shutdown-deal-1157829)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 03:17:20 am
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If they space the posts wider the could double or triple the WALL length
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 03:20:20 am

Mulvaney was brought in as acting CoS, because of his familiarity with Congress. He was on the Sunday shows, talking about other executive actions that might be taken to get funds. Now you know why. Politico seems to have had a line on the outcome, last week.....

That makes it all the more likely that Trump will be forced to choose between two unpalatable options: a bipartisan deal served up by lawmakers, or executive action that falls short of an emergency declaration. A more modest executive order has been under review by the White House counsel’s office for weeks, which Mulvaney has termed “legal executive authority.” Both choices are likely to provide much less money than what the president has been demanding for a border wall.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/07/white-house-trump-shutdown-deal-1157829 (https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/07/white-house-trump-shutdown-deal-1157829)

Mulvaney has been trying to push this lame deal since the shutdown.  Trump got mad.  I don't know why he lets this guy negotiate for him.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 03:21:32 am
If they space the posts wider the could double or triple the WALL length

Good point, yeah.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: TomSea on February 12, 2019, 03:23:13 am
Bollard wall from the DHS:

(https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/images/ola/testimony/20150513cbp/pf.jpg)

But even if this is it, we will have to see how much mileage they cover.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Elderberry on February 12, 2019, 03:23:39 am
If they space the posts wider the could double or triple the WALL length

Narrow enough to stop a F150, but wide enough to let a Smart ForTwo thru.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 03:24:00 am
LOL. Leave it to congressional RINO's to roll over in an effort to make it to Off The Record for happy hour. The four Senators crafting this garbage are about as bottom of the barrel worthless as it gets.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Bill Cipher on February 12, 2019, 03:24:50 am
Bollard wall from the DHS:

(https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/images/ola/testimony/20150513cbp/pf.jpg)

But even if this is it, we will have to see how much mileage they cover.

55 new miles of bollard fencing, according to the post up-thread.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on February 12, 2019, 03:25:08 am
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxeeuu5GYEmYnvUADLjn6g00z1P6C8CNPblVfjv3zk3TiXrTaN)

I have to go to bed now.  I can't handle the ups and downs of Trump any longer.  He is on the border talking about all the crimes illegal immigrants are committing and shaming Democrats for not wanting to lock up criminals.  But his negotiators are undermining the very things he is saying making stupid deals.  This is ridiculous.

What's frustrating is we've not heard from the President .... who I strongly suggest will not agree with this.  He's holding a rally and said he heard there was an "agreement" but didn't wait to hear the details. All he said was "we'll see  :shrug:"   So we've got to wait until the rally ends and he gets the actual scoop. @Chosen Daughter
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 03:27:09 am
LOL. Leave it to congressional RINO's to roll over in an effort to make it to Off The Record for happy hour. The four Senators crafting this garbage are about as bottom of the barrel worthless as it gets.

Not winning!
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 03:28:09 am
What's frustrating is we've not heard from the President .... who I strongly suggest will not agree with this.  He's holding a rally and said he heard there was an "agreement" but didn't wait to hear the details. All he said was "we'll see  :shrug:"   So we've got to wait until the rally ends and he gets the actual scoop. @Chosen Daughter

He better tell them to put it where the sun doesn't shine.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Emjay on February 12, 2019, 03:29:30 am
What's frustrating is we've not heard from the President .... who I strongly suggest will not agree with this.  He's holding a rally and said he heard there was an "agreement" but didn't wait to hear the details. All he said was "we'll see  :shrug:"   So we've got to wait until the rally ends and he gets the actual scoop. @Chosen Daughter

That's why I dreaded getting on this thread @Right_in_Virginia   I knew it would be endless agonizing, speculation, negative thinking and nobody knows what Trump will do.  And yet one of our members claims Trump is wearing her out.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 03:35:06 am
What's frustrating is we've not heard from the President .... who I strongly suggest will not agree with this.  He's holding a rally and said he heard there was an "agreement" but didn't wait to hear the details. All he said was "we'll see  :shrug:"   So we've got to wait until the rally ends and he gets the actual scoop. @Chosen Daughter


If it's a compromised deal between the people he said needed to work something out, vetoing it would put him back in ownership of a shutdown. He's not going to make the emergency declaration he's previously threatened. Instead, he'll go with this milquetoast version Mulvaney has been pimping the past few days. It'll be yet another cave, but I'm sure you'll start posting YouTube videos again, telling us the wall is already being built.   *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 03:42:49 am
Three people familiar with Congress’ tentative border security deal tell The Associated Press that the accord would provide $1.375 billion to build 55 miles of new border barriers.

That’s well below the $5.7 billion President Donald Trump demanded to build over 200 miles of wall along the Mexican boundary. The money will be for vertical steel slats called bollards, not a solid wall.

Democrats dropped their proposal to limit the number of detained immigrants caught inside the U.S. to a daily average of 16,500. Republicans opposed that demand. There is currently no such limit.

Bargainers agreed to fund 40,520 beds to detain immigrants entering or in the U.S. illegally. That’s the same number funded last year, though the actual figure held is around 49,000.


https://apnews.com/0f1657ef0b3c4241aa3ef50cdf6db901
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 03:46:27 am
Not winning!

This wouldn't even be an issue if it wasn't for Trump. All of these congressional GOP'er love open borders. 90% of them are on the record in some way or another as wanting it. Their big donors love the cheap labor. The Chamber or Commerce masturbates to pictures of truck loads of uneducated garbage humans being trucked in from Mexico. Trump is the only one attempting to do something tangible about the border since Operation Wet Back in the 50's. I have no quarrel with him. I do have a quarrel with this fat loser Sen Shelby. He's voted for more H-2B visas and DACA even though he talks all sorts of shit about putting a stop to it.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: RoosGirl on February 12, 2019, 03:51:37 am
This wouldn't even be an issue if it wasn't for Trump. All of these congressional GOP'er love open borders. 90% of them are on the record in some way or another as wanting it. Their big donors love the cheap labor. The Chamber or Commerce masturbates to pictures of truck loads of uneducated garbage humans being trucked in from Mexico. Trump is the only one attempting to do something tangible about the border since Operation Wet Back in the 50's. I have no quarrel with him. I do have a quarrel with this fat loser Sen Shelby. He's voted for more H-2B visas and DACA even though he talks all sorts of shit about putting a stop to it.


In the same way Trump is by employing them at his clubs.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Elderberry on February 12, 2019, 03:51:51 am
https://www.wvtm13.com/article/president-trump-shutdown-showed-whats-going-on-at-border-walls-save-lives/26297226 (https://www.wvtm13.com/article/president-trump-shutdown-showed-whats-going-on-at-border-walls-save-lives/26297226)

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Trump told thousands at a rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday that he was told lawmakers are making progress in their bids to avert another shutdown. But he says he told his staff that he didn't want to hear about it and that it was important to speak "to my people from Texas" first.

Trump says, "I had a choice. I could've stayed out there and listened, or I could have come out to the people of El Paso and Texas, I chose you."
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Emjay on February 12, 2019, 03:51:58 am
Well, I expected Trump would not get the whole amount he wanted for his wall -- in a negotiation there should be give and take --  but if the rumors of the terms of the agreement are true, he and the Republicans have been hornswoggled.

Again.

And this is why I would have liked to have seen Trump's deal making skills in action instead of him running off on another rock star tour.

But...this supposedly is an agreement in principle.  Let's see what the actual agreement looks like before we rend our garments and throw ashes on our heads.

It's amazing how Trump continues to draw huge and wildly enthusiastic crowds and I know it causes some people and politicians to be jealous.  (Poor Beto tonight)

But that is part of his job as President and leader ... to bring the public around to his plans and he is a master at it.

Once the public is firmly behind him, the fuddy duddies in the Senate will get in line.

Reagan did the same thing.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Emjay on February 12, 2019, 03:56:37 am
This wouldn't even be an issue if it wasn't for Trump. All of these congressional GOP'er love open borders. 90% of them are on the record in some way or another as wanting it. Their big donors love the cheap labor. The Chamber or Commerce masturbates to pictures of truck loads of uneducated garbage humans being trucked in from Mexico. Trump is the only one attempting to do something tangible about the border since Operation Wet Back in the 50's. I have no quarrel with him. I do have a quarrel with this fat loser Sen Shelby. He's voted for more H-2B visas and DACA even though he talks all sorts of shit about putting a stop to it.

Amen, Ambassador.  Trump has been a leader in so many formerly uncharted waters from small things on up.

I was impressed that he entered the fray about California's wildfires which California wants the US to pay for.  California is one of the worst touchy-feely environmental wacko states and their unrealistic forest protection codes made their forests just plain fuel.  I can't imagine another president bringing that up.  Just another occasion of leadership.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 03:57:41 am

In the same way Trump is by employing them at his clubs.

Is he? That canard has been disproved already because the FBI investigated and found the illegals were using fake green cards to get hired. Time to move on to your next Never Trump talking point Rachel Maddow.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 04:00:32 am
It's amazing how Trump continues to draw huge and wildly enthusiastic crowds and I know it causes some people and politicians to be jealous.  (Poor Beto tonight)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzLDzefVsAAshbu.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Elderberry on February 12, 2019, 04:00:53 am
Trump on spending deal: 'We're building the wall anyway'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-on-spending-deal-were-building-the-wall-anyway/ar-BBTtfRn (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-on-spending-deal-were-building-the-wall-anyway/ar-BBTtfRn)

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President Trump on Monday said he would build his long-desired wall along the southern border regardless of whether Congress approves funding for it.

"Just so you know, we're building the wall anyway," Trump said at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas, which sits directly across the Rio Grande from Mexico.

Trump spoke shortly after lawmakers said they had reached a funding deal in principle to avoid another government shutdown set to begin on Saturday. The deal includes some money for barriers along the border.

Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: RoosGirl on February 12, 2019, 04:01:02 am
Is he? That canard has been disproved already because the FBI investigated and found the illegals were using fake green cards to get hired. Time to move on to your next Never Trump talking point Rachel Maddow.

Really?  The last I read was the the clubs were providing the fake green cards for them.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 04:01:52 am
Trump told thousands at a rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday that he was told lawmakers are making progress in their bids to avert another shutdown. But he says he told his staff that he didn't want to hear about it and that it was important to speak "to my people from Texas" first.

Trump says, "I had a choice. I could've stayed out there and listened, or I could have come out to the people of El Paso and Texas, I chose you."

Please....

He'd already punted on this. He has no real interest in the negotiating process. Sen. Shelby practically tells us that. He just wants to endlessly campaign and bask in the adulation of adoring throngs. All circus, with no bread.

“The president told me, straight up, when I was with him... He told me more than once that if you can work out a legislative solution to this, do it. That’s what we’re trying to do,” said Shelby, who met with Trump last week. “Considering everything, this would be a good deal.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/11/shutdown-congress-border-security-1163824 (https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/11/shutdown-congress-border-security-1163824)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 04:04:12 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzLDzefVsAAshbu.jpg:large)

LOL!  Sour grapes, OL?   I just watched the rally in El Paso... and trust me... those are some damned good looking fellow Texans in that crowd.  Not at all like the atypical leftist DemoroncRat voters.


Too bad, so sad, better luck next time...?
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Emjay on February 12, 2019, 04:06:22 am
Is he? That canard has been disproved already because the FBI investigated and found the illegals were using fake green cards to get hired. Time to move on to your next Never Trump talking point Rachel Maddow.

Yes, I remember when I believed that story, but then it was totally debunked like most of the negative stories churned out by the press.

After that I didn't believe it any more no matter how much fun it was.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Elderberry on February 12, 2019, 04:07:50 am
He just wants to endlessly campaign.

You nailed it!
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Emjay on February 12, 2019, 04:08:09 am
LOL!  Sour grapes, OL?   I just watched the rally in El Paso... and trust me... those are some damned good looking fellow Texans in that crowd.  Not at all like the atypical leftist DemoroncRat voters.


Too bad, so sad, better luck next time...?

Me, too @XenaLee and I was proud of my fellow Texans ... good looking, enthusiastic and all out for America.  Wonder how Beto's crowd looked in comparison???
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 04:08:17 am
https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1095169524972900353

Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan

While the President was giving a great speech in El Paso, Congress was putting together a bad deal on immigration.

#DoWhatWeSaid
7:55 PM - 11 Feb 2019
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 04:10:14 am
LOL!  Sour grapes, OL?   I just watched the rally in El Paso... and trust me... those are some damned good looking fellow Texans in that crowd.  Not at all like the atypical leftist DemoroncRat voters.


Too bad, so sad, better luck next time...?

Looked like a trailer park circus to me.  Did Trump talk about what he watched on TV?
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on February 12, 2019, 04:10:58 am
but I'm sure you'll start posting YouTube videos again, telling us the wall is already being built.   

The wall IS being built ... and no one gives a furry rat's behind that this disappoints you, least of all me.   :laugh:

Welcome to the 2020 campaign, sweetie!  "Finish the wall!"

(https://i.postimg.cc/6qxkbQTH/Dz-LPJS8-Ww-AAe-bs.jpg)

Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 04:11:08 am
Me, too @XenaLee and I was proud of my fellow Texans ... good looking, enthusiastic and all out for America.  Wonder how Beto's crowd looked in comparison???

Like a bunch of stumbling, bumbling, brain-dead TWD extras...?  LOLOLOL
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:11:15 am
Really?  The last I read was the the clubs were providing the fake green cards for them.

Oh? So the FBI arrested Trump management people faking cards or is this information coming from the the Commie Pinko lawyers defending these illegal criminals from using fake paper? Thanks for playing though Rachel. I'm sure when you get Trumps tax returns next week you can show where he itemized and deducted the expenses for the green paper he used to make the Green Cards.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on February 12, 2019, 04:12:09 am
You nailed it!

No he didn't @Elderberry   And neither did you.

Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 04:13:40 am
Looked like a trailer park circus to me.  Did Trump talk about what he watched on TV?

Well then... you either weren't watching the same rally I was watching....

or you were watching through "crap-colored" glasses.   :silly:
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Emjay on February 12, 2019, 04:13:43 am
Like a bunch of stumbling, bumbling, brain-dead TWD extras...?  LOLOLOL

Definitely a spot-on description. LOL
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 04:14:47 am
The wall IS being built ... and no one gives a furry rat's behind that this disappoints you, least of all me.   :laugh:

Welcome to the 2020 campaign, sweetie!  "Finish the wall!"

How could anybody be disappointed with the WALL
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxeeuu5GYEmYnvUADLjn6g00z1P6C8CNPblVfjv3zk3TiXrTaN)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on February 12, 2019, 04:16:17 am
Like a bunch of stumbling, bumbling, brain-dead TWD extras...?  LOLOLOL

(https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-22.56.43.png)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:17:37 am
(https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-22.56.43.png)

LOL. Sweet.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 12, 2019, 04:18:19 am
The LEFT and DEMON-RATS should love president TRUMP!  He is making their lives better too. Making all lives better!

http://youtu.be/EmoSwn1lrC0 (http://youtu.be/EmoSwn1lrC0)


Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmoSwn1lrC0&feature=youtu.be#)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 04:18:45 am
(https://static.pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-22.56.43.png)

The guy's on drugs, I tell ya.  Just saw him wildly gesticulating on Fox.  What?  Does he think he's also Italian.... or better yet, related to Pelosi?    Maybe that's the select crowd he's hoping to attract....the Italian druggies crowd.  Hmmm....

Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Bigun on February 12, 2019, 04:19:55 am
If what I'm reading here is what is actually in the deal I know exactly what the president should tell them to do with it but whether or not he will remains to be seen.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Emjay on February 12, 2019, 04:20:14 am
Kinda weird how some people are determined that Trump's rally was poorly attended by a bunch of losers when all they had to do was watch the dang thing.

That's why I don't bother to respond to them anymore.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 04:21:30 am
If what I'm reading here is what is actually in the deal I know exactly what the president should tell them to do with it but whether or not he will remains to be seen.

We have to expect that the idiot left and RINOs will throw out several lame-azz attempts to fubar Trump's wall agenda.   This is just the first or most current attempt.  Doesn't mean it will go anywhere, much less get signed off on.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Emjay on February 12, 2019, 04:21:37 am
If what I'm reading here is what is actually in the deal I know exactly what the president should tell them to do with it but whether or not he will remains to be seen.

We won't know until we know but I hope Trump finds another way and I think he's got the country behind him for sure.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: RoosGirl on February 12, 2019, 04:22:46 am
Oh? So the FBI arrested Trump management people faking cards or is this information coming from the the Commie Pinko lawyers defending these illegal criminals from using fake paper? Thanks for playing though Rachel. I'm sure when you get Trumps tax returns next week you can show where he itemized and deducted the expenses for the green paper he used to make the Green Cards.

Last I read the supposedly fake green cards and where they came from was being investigated by the FBI.

You'd think that a person campaigning on building a wall to help combat the illegal problem we have would make double damn sure they didn't have any illegals working for them, but wtf, everyone in SoFlo (and apparently NJ) has illegals cutting their grass.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 04:24:46 am
Well then... you either weren't watching the same rally I was watching....

I've been watching the same Trump show as you for over 3 years but I doubt we are seeing the same stuff.

Quote
or you were watching through "crap-colored" glasses.   :silly:

You mean Trump-colored glasses?

You don't typically go for the personal insult in your posts.  I admire that.  If I have slighted you in some way that caused you pain I apologize. 
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:24:56 am
Kinda weird how some people are determined that Trump's rally was poorly attended by a bunch of losers when all they had to do was watch the dang thing.

That's why I don't bother to respond to them anymore.

Trumps rally pics looks jam packed. The few pics of Beatoff's rally looks like a bunch of school girls hanging out under an underpass.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 04:27:15 am
The wall IS being built ... and no one gives a furry rat's behind that this disappoints you, least of all me.   :laugh:

Welcome to the 2020 campaign, sweetie!  "Finish the wall!"

(https://i.postimg.cc/6qxkbQTH/Dz-LPJS8-Ww-AAe-bs.jpg)


I'm really impressed how he turned down $25B last year for providing DACA protection, when the latter is something he'll end up doing, anyway. Then, he shuts down the government over a CR he ends up agreeing to a month later. To top it all off, this deal is for 55 miles of wall, when he shot down an offer for 65 miles of barrier last summer.

Yeah - he's really got them on the run.    :silly:
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:28:29 am
Last I read the supposedly fake green cards and where they came from was being investigated by the FBI.

You'd think that a person campaigning on building a wall to help combat the illegal problem we have would make double damn sure they didn't have any illegals working for them, but wtf, everyone in SoFlo (and apparently NJ) has illegals cutting their grass.

Listen Rachel. Fake paper doesn't look fake. I had a tenant years ago who trafficked in it and I couldn't tell it from the genuine. Now go back to telling everyone how awesome Gov Coonman is for embracing his inner blackness and leave the adult issues to the adults.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Emjay on February 12, 2019, 04:30:05 am
Trumps rally pics looks jam packed. The few pics of Beatoff's rally looks like a bunch of school girls hanging out under an underpass.

Nice visual, Frank.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:30:19 am

I'm really impressed how he turned down $25B last year for providing DACA protection, when the latter is something he'll end up doing, anyway. Then, he shuts down the government over a CR he ends up agreeing to a month later. To top it all off, this deal is for 55 miles of wall, when he shot down an offer for 65 miles of barrier last summer.

Yeah - he's really got them on the run.    :silly:

Didn't know Trump was a congressmen now. Thanks for the update. Now I am angry with him for cutting such a shitty deal with the Rats. I hope President Shelby does something about this!
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:31:12 am
Nice visual, Frank.

(https://s.abcnews.com/images/Politics/beto-orourke-counter-rally-el-paso-rt-jef-190211_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: RoosGirl on February 12, 2019, 04:31:43 am
Listen Rachel. Fake paper doesn't look fake. I had a tenant years ago who trafficked in it and I couldn't tell it from the genuine. Now go back to telling everyone how awesome Gov Coonman is for embracing his inner blackness and leave the adult issues to the adults.

https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/e-verify-overview (https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/e-verify-overview)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 12, 2019, 04:34:16 am




....Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTRqcVk3lTI#)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 04:34:37 am
Trumps rally pics looks jam packed.
It's the largest rally in the history of America :patriot:
What's he rallying for?  The pretty fence legislation he's about to sign?
Success again.  So much winning!
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 04:40:10 am
Didn't know Trump was a congressmen now. Thanks for the update. Now I am angry with him for cutting such a shitty deal with the Rats. I hope President Shelby does something about this!


That may as well be the scenario. When this ends up being jammed through, he’ll have to sign or veto. Either way, he’ll lose by being responsible for another shutdown or accepting a crap deal.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:41:01 am
https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/e-verify-overview (https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/e-verify-overview)

Listen Rachel. It's currently illegal to require the use of it thanks to your pal Obama. Now go back and tell your viewers how you have dirty thoughts about Elizabeth Warren.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 04:41:19 am
It's the largest rally in the history of America :patriot:
What's he rallying for?  The pretty fence legislation he's about to sign?
Success again.  So much winning!

Who said he's about to sign it?  He hasn't even seen it yet.  What?  Are you suddenly psychic?  Should we start calling you Once-Ler the Magnificent now?

(http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/47623/788182.jpg)

Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:42:13 am

That may as well be the scenario. When this ends up being jammed through, he’ll have to sign or veto. Either way, he’ll lose by being responsible for another shutdown or accepting a crap deal.

Oh. Wait. Now you are telling me that there are a separation of powers and that President Trump hasn't had the last word on this? Well sakes alive. I had no idea.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 04:42:46 am

That may as well be the scenario. When this ends up being jammed through, he’ll have to sign or veto. Either way, he’ll lose by being responsible for another shutdown or accepting a crap deal.

He's in a lose-lose scenario, for sure.  And that is what the idiot left and deep state elitist RINOs are counting on.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 04:45:26 am
Listen Rachel. It's currently illegal to require the use of it thanks to your pal Obama. Now go back and tell your viewers how you have dirty thoughts about Elizabeth Warren.

Damn that Obama and his 2018 GOP Congress and Presidency
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/everify-expired-during-government-shutdown.aspx (https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/everify-expired-during-government-shutdown.aspx)
E-Verify Expired During Government Shutdown

Great research @Amb. Frank Cannon
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:46:12 am
He's in a lose-lose scenario, for sure.  And that is what the idiot left and deep state elitist RINOs are counting on.

Bullshit. I was told the last shutdown was going to be a disaster and both economic and real life data show the opposite. There is also the 3rd option that the devout NT's haven't touched yet.......State of Emergency.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 04:46:47 am
Should we start calling you Once-Ler the Magnificent now?

(http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/47623/788182.jpg)

Yes please.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: RoosGirl on February 12, 2019, 04:48:34 am
Listen Rachel. It's currently illegal to require the use of it thanks to your pal Obama. Now go back and tell your viewers how you have dirty thoughts about Elizabeth Warren.

It's not illegal to use it voluntarily though!  Nice try.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:49:39 am
Damn that Obama and his 2018 GOP Congress and Presidency
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/everify-expired-during-government-shutdown.aspx (https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/everify-expired-during-government-shutdown.aspx)
E-Verify Expired During Government Shutdown

Great research @Amb. Frank Cannon

How about you stop effing pinging me. [insults removed]
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 04:50:49 am
Bullshit. I was told the last shutdown was going to be a disaster and both economic and real life data show the opposite. There is also the 3rd option that the devout NT's haven't touched yet.......State of Emergency.

Yeah, but... Mitch da Bitch told him not to do that.  And I'm betting he will comply.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:51:31 am
It's not illegal to use it voluntarily though!  Nice try.

Why do something that is not mandatory Rachel? I'm sure they don't rinse out the recycling either.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 04:52:39 am
Yes please.

Lol....

why am I not surprised. 
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:53:03 am
Yeah, but... Mitch da Bitch told him not to do that.  And I'm betting he will comply.

Well then we can all join in on that thread in a week or two and cry in our beer. Until then I haven't seen anything happen one way or the other that changes anything.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 04:54:14 am
Well then we can all join in on that thread in a week or two and cry in our beer. Until then I haven't seen anything happen one way or the other that changes anything.

True... but.... since... speculating and pontificating is your favorite thing here....

well, ok.... ONE of your favorite things....

ahem...
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: RoosGirl on February 12, 2019, 04:55:50 am
Why do something that is not mandatory Rachel? I'm sure they don't rinse out the recycling either.

You know damn well the point I'm getting at.  I can tell by this latest response you agree with me.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 04:57:09 am
Oh. Wait. Now you are telling me that there are a separation of powers and that President Trump hasn't had the last word on this? Well sakes alive. I had no idea.


That’s entirely the point. He won’t have the last word, because he takes a hit on the right, either way. There’s no massive support for a shutdown from this Congress. That’s what a veto gets. It’s not the same as December, when a lot of them were out the door, anyway. He’s not getting the full support from McConnell this time around, especially after a bipartisan group worked out this deal.

Signing it draws fire from the base. It’ll only get worse when he pulls this weak executive move, over an actual emergency declaration he’d promised before. I haven’t seen someone neuter themselves like this since Marshall Applewhite and Hale-Bopp.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 04:58:07 am
True... but.... since... speculating and pontificating is your favorite thing here....

well, ok.... ONE of your favorite things....

ahem...

What the hell do I speculate on? I am usually the one pouring cold water on fake news/future news articles here because they are fabricated out of erroneous sources and printed in discredited news sources.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: RoosGirl on February 12, 2019, 05:00:42 am
Oh dear...  I guess we're clear now about whether E-verify checks are performed across Trump's entire domestic portfolio.

Quote
Trump last October listed E-Verify among his immigration priorities and in February, requested $23 million in his 2019 budget proposal to expand the program for mandatory nationwide use. He uses E-Verify at his golf club in North Carolina, where the worker checks are required by state law, as well as other entities in Chicago, Miami and New York, according to an E-Verify database of participating employers.

But it is unclear whether E-Verify checks are performed across Trump's entire domestic portfolio of hotels and golf clubs. Trump Organization and White House officials have not responded to Post inquiries.

https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180527/what-happened-to-e-verify-x2014-the-governments-popular-way-to-curb-illegal-immigration (https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180527/what-happened-to-e-verify-x2014-the-governments-popular-way-to-curb-illegal-immigration)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 05:01:46 am
What the hell do I speculate on? I am usually the one pouring cold water on fake news/future news articles here because they are fabricated out of erroneous sources and printed in discredited news sources.

Well... you constantly assume and posit that "nobody gives a shit" (your words) about most issues discussed here...lol.   That's speculation.  (you asked)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 05:03:14 am
https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1095169524972900353

Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan

While the President was giving a great speech in El Paso, Congress was putting together a bad deal on immigration.

#DoWhatWeSaid
7:55 PM - 11 Feb 2019


#DoWhatYouSaid.....right, Gym?

I just wanna stay in the White House and work my ass off, make great deals, right?" he continued. "Who's gonna leave?"

Donald Trump - February 2016
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 05:03:21 am
How about you stop effing pinging me.  I don't come her to chat with open Communist and trolls.
I'm sorry to say no, when you asked me so nicely @Amb. Frank Cannon  In fact I believe it is proper netiquette to ping someone when you are making them look like a clown.

Both members in my ignore list ping me.  It's easy enough to not click on their posts. 

Quote
I don't come her to chat with open Communist and trolls.

I don't come here to chat with racists and morons but it happens sometimes.  I limit it with the ignore feature.  Do you need instruction on how to set up an ignore list?
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 05:06:55 am

That’s entirely the point. He won’t have the last word, because he takes a hit on the right, either way. There’s no massive support for a shutdown from this Congress. That’s what a veto gets. It’s not the same as December, when a lot of them were out the door, anyway. He’s not getting the full support from McConnell this time around, especially after a bipartisan group worked out this deal.

Signing it draws fire from the base. It’ll only get worse when he pulls this weak executive move, over an actual emergency declaration he’d promised before. I haven’t seen someone neuter themselves like this since Marshall Applewhite and Hale-Bopp.

Let's see. All I read there is a bunch of talking points from a devout rabid Trump hater who is about as worthless an individual in this next election cycle as a PETA representative at a chili cook off. You didn't have any effect in '16 and you won't again in '20. Every day another one of you throws in the towel by either having their publication go out of business (Weakly Substandard) or actually jumping on the Trump Train (Beck, Erickson et al). Now you are relegated to spending 23 hours of your life on this forum trying to convince everyone that Trump is shit. How's that working out for you? I can't think of anyone that is buying your bullshit. Not one. Actually since the election more people have slid over to mild support of the guy. Does that make you a failure? I would say yes.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 05:14:00 am
I'm sorry to say no, when you asked me so nicely @Amb. Frank Cannon  In fact I believe it is proper netiquette to ping someone when you are making them look like a clown.

Both members in my ignore list ping me.  It's easy enough to not click on their posts. 

I don't come here to chat with racists and morons but it happens sometimes.  I limit it with the ignore feature.  Do you need instruction on how to set up an ignore list?

]insults removed]
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 05:17:50 am
Let's see. All I read there is a bunch of talking points from a devout rabid Trump hater who is about as worthless an individual in this next election cycle as a PETA representative at a chili cook off. You didn't have any effect in '16 and you won't again in '20. Every day another one of you throws in the towel by either having their publication go out of business (Weakly Substandard) or actually jumping on the Trump Train (Beck, Erickson et al). Now you are relegated to spending 23 hours of your life on this forum trying to convince everyone that Trump is shit. How's that working out for you? I can't think of anyone that is buying your bullshit. Not one. Actually since the election more people have slid over to mild support of the guy. Does that make you a failure? I would say yes.


I don’t need to convince anyone Trump is garbage. He’ll do that all on his own, when he inevitably proves to be the fraud he is and has always been. The economy was pretty good under the 42nd president, who was an equally duplicitous charlatan. Sometimes, the nation does well in spite of who’s in the WH.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 05:21:42 am

I don’t need to convince anyone Trump is garbage. He’ll do that all on his own, when he inevitably proves to be the fraud he is and has always been. The economy was pretty good under the 42nd president, who was an equally duplicitous charlatan. Sometimes, the nation does well in spite of who’s in the WH.

You keep banging away Flat Earther. I'm sure you will get your cult going one of these days. Gotta stay positive!
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 05:24:44 am

I don’t need to convince anyone Trump is garbage. He’ll do that all on his own, when he inevitably proves to be the fraud he is and has always been. The economy was pretty good under the 42nd president, who was an equally duplicitous charlatan. Sometimes, the nation does well in spite of who’s in the WH.

Technically, that's correct.  But.... the only reason 'why' the economy did well then was due to the Republican control of both houses of Congress and the Contract with America that was so wildly popular (balancing the budget) with American voters back then.   With the DemocRats in control of either part of Congress.... the economy will become stagnant (again) due to obstructionism and the inability of Trump to get anything that is good for America passed.

After observing Trump in the last two speeches (SOTU and El Paso wall rally).... I am now convinced that he, at least, is sincerely trying to drag us in the right/correct direction....

unlike the azzholes on the left and in the DemocRat-ic Party.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 05:28:12 am
Personally my life is full and rich enough to not have to chat with fagots and low lives from dairy states, but you do whatever the you want. It's a free country.

You sound happy and well adjusted.  kool-aid?
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Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 05:31:49 am
Technically, that's correct.  But.... the only reason 'why' the economy did well then was due to the Republican control of both houses of Congress and the Contract with America that was so wildly popular (balancing the budget) with American voters back then.   With the DemocRats in control of either part of Congress.... the economy will become stagnant (again) due to obstructionism and the inability of Trump to get anything that is good for America passed.

After observing Trump in the last two speeches (SOTU and El Paso wall rally).... I am now convinced that he, at least, is sincerely trying to drag us in the right/correct direction....

unlike the azzholes on the left and in the DemocRat-ic Party.

Dead on except you are missing one key detail.....we somehow have ended up with 1970's style GOPers in congress. I am consistently surprised at how weak they are even in power. Just look at who they pick to run them? McConnell? Ryan? The new guy so forgettable I can never remember his name? It's like Bob Michel is still alive and running congress.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 05:35:58 am
You keep banging away Flat Earther. I'm sure you will get your cult going one of these days. Gotta stay positive!


You too, Quixote. After all, one of these days, Avenatti will be in jail for tax evasion and Stupid Bobby will go down for jailing innocent guys, right?   *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 05:38:36 am
Dead on except you are missing one key detail.....we somehow have ended up with 1970's style GOPers in congress. I am consistently surprised at how weak they are even in power. Just look at who they pick to run them? McConnell? Ryan? The new guy so forgettable I can never remember his name? It's like Bob Michel is still alive and running congress.

And .... let's not forget the biggest moron they picked.... Boehner   On second thought...

let's do forget.

Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 05:39:57 am
Dead on except you are missing one key detail.....we somehow have ended up with 1970's style GOPers in congress. I am consistently surprised at how weak they are even in power. Just look at who they pick to run them? McConnell? Ryan? The new guy so forgettable I can never remember his name? It's like Bob Michel is still alive and running congress.

Senator Steve King could weld the leader gavel if only 50 other senators besides himself would vote for him.  Unfortunately most the GOP Senate is not insane or senile enough to burn it all down like President Trump.

Phooey on responsible representation. :2barf:
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 05:40:51 am

You too, Quixote. After all, one of these days, Avenatti will be in jail for tax evasion and Stupid Bobby will go down for jailing innocent guys, right?   *****rollingeyes*****

Those things happening are far more likely than Trump going to jail. Avenatti is almost in the clink as we speak....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/avenatti-former-client-allegations (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/avenatti-former-client-allegations)
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Frank Cannon on February 12, 2019, 05:42:16 am
And .... let's not forget the biggest moron they picked.... Boehner   On second thought...

let's do forget.

He's so stoned on pot and chardonnay right now he doesn't remember being Speaker either.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 05:45:03 am
Those things happening are far more likely than Trump going to jail. Avenatti is almost in the clink as we speak....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/avenatti-former-client-allegations (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/avenatti-former-client-allegations)

It's too bad Avenatti doesn't have a slush fund he can divert $130,000 to when he gets in trouble or gets an erection.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: RoosGirl on February 12, 2019, 05:47:28 am
It's too bad Avenatti doesn't have a slush fund he can divert $130,000 to when he gets in trouble or gets an erection.

People like you are going to force me to become a Trump supporter.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 05:53:12 am
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Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 05:55:11 am
People like you are going to force me to become a Trump supporter.

That's ok.  Trump forced me out of the GOP after 30 years.  It's not like any of this stuff was real.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: RoosGirl on February 12, 2019, 05:59:20 am
That's ok.  Trump forced me out of the GOP after 30 years.  It's not like any of this stuff was real.

You, in the GOP?  Get the bleep out of here.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 12, 2019, 06:08:34 am
You, in the GOP?  Get the bleep out of here.
I know Right.  My abject disgust over the continued funding of PP, reckless spending, trade taxes, the erosion of morality, traditional values and the English language fool a lot of the Nouveau-GOP
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 09:09:18 am
Those things happening are far more likely than Trump going to jail. Avenatti is almost in the clink as we speak....

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/avenatti-former-client-allegations (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/avenatti-former-client-allegations)


The only thing keeping Individual-1 out of a court is the DOJ opinion a president can’t be indicted. Otherwise, he’d have plenty of executive time to spend with Cohen and Manafort.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Applewood on February 12, 2019, 09:48:30 am
It's amazing how Trump continues to draw huge and wildly enthusiastic crowds and I know it causes some people and politicians to be jealous.  (Poor Beto tonight)

But that is part of his job as President and leader ... to bring the public around to his plans and he is a master at it.

Once the public is firmly behind him, the fuddy duddies in the Senate will get in line.

Reagan did the same thing.

In a situation like this, what is needed is leadership -- a guy to get people together and hammer out a deal that will work for all.  And if necessary, apply that hammer to a few heads, both in his party and on the opposite side.

Running around the country to preach to the choir does not accomplish anything, other than energize his already adoring fans.  It does nothing to accomplish what he has promised. 

Elected officials in DC really don't care what we peons think -- and haven't for a long time.   As president, Trump should have been more engaged in working toward a resolution.  Even if he could not physically be present at the negotiations, he should have stayed in DC and actually worked behind the scenes.  I don't see any evidence that he has. 
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Jazzhead on February 12, 2019, 01:57:55 pm
It's good to see a settlement has been reached and (barring a Trump veto),  the government won't be shut down.

Yeah,  the border barrier funding is still inadequate,  but the absolute last thing we need at this time is a government shutdown that wipes most everything else off the news.

And the news these days is delicious:   Dems self-immolating with radicalism and identity politics come home to roost -  rape,  racism and hypocrisy in Virginia, crazy-ass plans to ban planes, cows and private insurance,  and partying to celebrate new laws allowing infanticide.   

Let the Dems have the news cycle, folks, and let Trump keep reinforcing the SOTU's message that he represents the political center.     

 
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 12, 2019, 02:07:33 pm
That's ok.  Trump forced me out of the GOP after 30 years.  It's not like any of this stuff was real.

Really.  We call liberals who love to dole out other people's money for the masses "bleeding heart liberals".  Your stance on immigration is what has been wrong with Republicans for a very long time.  Their amnesties and inability to stop the flow of benefits to people who break the laws make them RINO. (Not the only issue of course)  Not much of a difference between "bleeding heart liberal"

It is those RINO's that have been forcing me away from the party.  Because it has nothing to do with "heart", but everything to do with lobbyist and votes.    People like that are driving the American people away.  If the illegals keep pouring in then Americans will be the minority in America. Although I found Trumps promises during his campaign a fairytale I wished like all the rest of the people that voted for him that we could reign in illegal immigration.  It is ruining our country and putting us in debt. 
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Wingnut on February 12, 2019, 02:10:57 pm
You, in the GOP?  Get the bleep out of here.

He invited blue hammer banboy over.  That should tell you where his heart really lays.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Bigun on February 12, 2019, 03:13:59 pm
I've been watching the same Trump show as you for over 3 years but I doubt we are seeing the same stuff.

You mean Trump-colored glasses?

You don't typically go for the personal insult in your posts.  I admire that.  If I have slighted you in some way that caused you pain I apologize.

Wondering how you see anything with your head so far up your azz 24/7/365.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: XenaLee on February 12, 2019, 03:30:27 pm
I've been watching the same Trump show as you for over 3 years but I doubt we are seeing the same stuff.

Well... I was inspired last nite, so.... I doubt it as well.    happy77

That said, I'm still waiting for those two steps back he usually takes after a step forward.  A stupid tweet, an immature comment, etc.   It's probably in the works as we speak, but I'll wait for it before I bash it.  That's fair, don't you think?

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You mean Trump-colored glasses?

No, I mean what I said.  Your distaste for Trump colors what you see and hear from him.  You can't even give him credit for a good, inspiring speech..... due to your dislike of the man.  It's obvious.

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You don't typically go for the personal insult in your posts.  I admire that.  If I have slighted you in some way that caused you pain I apologize.

No, I don't like to do that... but I do so love snark and sarc....lol.   Nothing you've said about Trump has bothered me in the least. You're entitled to your opinion too....and I've been posting on political forums for over two decades.  No big deal to me. 


Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 04:06:45 pm
It’s fairly telling he hasn’t tweeted about the plan. Fox & Friends, Hannity, and Limbaugh haven’t all weighed in, yet.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: txradioguy on February 12, 2019, 04:16:40 pm
Erica Werner
‏Verified account @ericawerner

The agreement reached tonight would include:

-$1.375b for border barriers (55 new miles of bollard fencing)
-Dems drop call for new cap on ICE beds for detentions in interior
-Overall cap on detention beds drops from 49,057 to 40,520

Per congressional official.

No way!  Who is negotiating for Trump?  This is a Democratic wet dream.

Remember...McConnell said a couple weeks ago he'd sign on to any deal that avoided a shutdown.

Here's that "deal".

We're screwed.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 12, 2019, 04:28:00 pm
Remember...McConnell said a couple weeks ago he'd sign on to any deal that avoided a shutdown.

Here's that "deal".

We're screwed.


Anyone who believes the White House needs time to go over the details, because they haven’t been briefed, is buying a lie. The legislative affairs personnel were also involved with every step of the omnibus bill, last year.  When Trump said no one read it, he was FOS. They’ve been aware of the negotiation process and content, since discussions began.


Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, a lead negotiator, said Monday that the White House has been consulted “all along.”

-snip-

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says a bipartisan border security deal is “good news” as Congress races to avert another shutdown by Friday’s deadline.

McConnell opened the Senate on Tuesday by saying he was hopeful the chamber “can act on this legislation in short order.”


https://apnews.com/4ac399ca6b994e90a73297acabd0e611
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: RoosGirl on February 12, 2019, 04:33:11 pm
He invited blue hammer banboy over.  That should tell you where his heart really lays.

He did? Is that a buddy of his from DUh?
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Jazzhead on February 12, 2019, 06:24:45 pm
It’s fairly telling he hasn’t tweeted about the plan. Fox & Friends, Hannity, and Limbaugh haven’t all weighed in, yet.

It's not a great deal.  But shutting down the government again would be counterproductive.   
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 13, 2019, 01:08:54 am
Wondering how you see anything with your head so far up your azz 24/7/365.
Cash me outside.  Howbow dat?
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 13, 2019, 01:11:12 am
It's not a great deal.  But shutting down the government again would be counterproductive.
agreed.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 13, 2019, 01:24:23 am
It's not a great deal.  But shutting down the government again would be counterproductive.

Do not agree.  The Dems are doing this because they don't believe Trump would shut it down again.  They need a dose of reality.  They are not coming to the table with a realistic offer they just want their way. 
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Chosen Daughter on February 13, 2019, 01:26:45 am
Remember...McConnell said a couple weeks ago he'd sign on to any deal that avoided a shutdown.

Here's that "deal".

We're screwed.

I guess he told them then that they could have their way without a fight.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Wingnut on February 13, 2019, 01:33:13 am
Cash me outside.  Howbow dat?

You never leave your bubble.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: edpc on February 13, 2019, 01:37:57 am
Do not agree.  The Dems are doing this because they don't believe Trump would shut it down again.  They need a dose of reality.  They are not coming to the table with a realistic offer they just want their way.


Here’s the dose of reality - this ‘deal’ funds the government through the fiscal year, which I believe is until September. If there’s one thing McConnell and Pelosi agree upon, it’s that they want to be done with this and not hammer out things, every few weeks. There was an agreed upon CR last December. Trump backed out, after the base got fired up, when it sailed through the Senate. I’d almost guarantee they’d muster the votes in each part of Congress, to override him, if he tried that again. I’m guessing that’s been conveyed, during the discussions Shelby has had with WH personnel.
Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on February 13, 2019, 01:45:57 am
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Title: Re: Lawmakers reach agreement 'in principle' to avert shutdown
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on February 13, 2019, 01:51:52 am
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