Budget talks progress, as Senate Dems drop Dreamer demand

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 Budget talks progress, as Senate Dems drop Dreamer demand

But House Democrats may not support a spending deal that lacks relief for young undocumented immigrants.

By HEATHER CAYGLE, SARAH FERRIS and BURGESS EVERETT

01/24/2018 07:06 PM EST

Senate Democrats are willing to drop their demand that relief for Dreamers be tied to any long-term budget agreement — a potential boost for spending talks, but one that could face opposition from their House counterparts.

The shift comes in response to the deal struck between Senate leaders Monday to reopen the government and begin debate on an immigration bill next month. Meanwhile, budget negotiators are expressing optimism that a two-year agreement to lift stiff caps on defense and domestic spending is increasingly within reach.

“We’re viewing [immigration and spending] on separate terms because they are on separate paths,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Tuesday.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/24/democrats-drop-dreamer-demand-with-budget-deal-in-reach-366992

[dfwgator]

I think this shows Trump is starting to figure things out.  I knew it would take some time, but I think he's getting there.

[Bigun]

I think this shows Trump is starting to figure things out.  I knew it would take some time, but I think he's getting there.

Or perhaps the Dims finally figured out that they just got their azzes handed them.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Or perhaps the Dims finally figured out that they just got their azzes handed them.

Pick a fight you Can win, and clobber them.

The ACA has become a Hydra with tentacles reaching everywhere and firmly wrapped around much of our current healthcare Institutions.

There's stiff resistance to killing it from Hospitals and more who've switched out their routines to accommodate it and don't want  the trouble and expense of switching back.

We can uproot O'care but it's gonna take time.

People who've had their communities invaded and occupied by illegals know them not as the loud mouthed College Campus Protestors, but as dirty and dangerous, potentially violent thugs.

[Frank Cannon]

Or perhaps the Dims finally figured out that they just got their azzes handed them.

When was the last time you knew a Rat to acknowledge defeat?

[Bigun]

When was the last time you knew a Rat to acknowledge defeat?

Publicly or privately?

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

Publicly or privately?

State level Rat in my town lost his re-election bid last time.

Cops picked him up the next day for slugging his own father.