Republicans are desperate to avoid shutdown but fear crossing Trump

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Republicans are desperate to avoid shutdown but fear crossing Trump
by David M. Drucker
 | January 31, 2019 12:03 AM


Republicans in the Senate are desperate to avoid another debilitating government shutdown but dread crossing President Trump on immigration, fearing a break with the White House could boomerang against them with the conservative base in 2020.

This dilemma raises the stakes for Senate Republicans as bipartisan border security negotiations begin in a bicameral congressional committee. They have to squeeze the best possible deal from confident Democrats, who oppose Trump’s top priority — building a wall along the Mexican border — and are convinced shutdown politics play to their advantage. Then, Republicans have to hope the notoriously fickle Trump approves and abandons threats to partially shutter the government again.

It’s a tall order, Senate Majority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., conceded in an interview with reporters on Wednesday. The South Dakota Republican acknowledged that selling Trump on any emerging agreement would be a top priority in a bid to avert being forced to choose: Go along with another Trump-led government shutdown or join with Democrats to keep it open and risk alienating the GOP base and inviting 2020 primary challenges.

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[Frank Cannon]

LOL. So basically the GOP is as impotent as ever.

[RetBobbyMI]

Nothing to fear if they did their jobs and passed a budget with the President’s priorities included. What so complicated?

[Sanguine]

Nothing to fear if they did their jobs and passed a budget with the President’s priorities included. What so complicated?

They're in a real pickle now.  The bill has to originate in the now-dem-controlled House and then be passed in the still-R-controlled Senate.  Wonder what the chances of arriving at a mutually passable bill are?

[Chosen Daughter]

Nothing to fear if they did their jobs and passed a budget with the President’s priorities included. What so complicated?

They should not be thinking of crossing the President.  They should be doing the will of the people to secure the border.  The only ones they can be worried about crossing is their lobbyists who gain from illegal immigration.

[Emjay]

They're in a real pickle now.  The bill has to originate in the now-dem-controlled House and then be passed in the still-R-controlled Senate.  Wonder what the chances of arriving at a mutually passable bill are?

I watched Trump's presser this morning and he has given up on the democrats coming to an agreement.

But he didn't sound too devastated.  I think he has something in mind.

[Fishrrman]

Title and premise:
"Republicans are desperate to avoid shutdown but fear crossing Trump"

Good.
They ought to "fear" him.
He's trying to do something for the country (get the wall constructed).
They do NOTHING, and have DONE nothing even when in the majority.

They should REALLY fear the voters, who by now probably see their schtick.
Goes sumthin' like this:

[Cyber Liberty]

They're in a real pickle now.  The bill has to originate in the now-dem-controlled House and then be passed in the still-R-controlled Senate.  Wonder what the chances of arriving at a mutually passable bill are?

Yes, they are between a rock and a hard place.  Exactly where I want my otherwise worthless politicians.

[dfwgator]

This is why so many "Republicans" retired,  they knew what was coming, and they didn't have the stomach for the fight.

[dfwgator]

They're in a real pickle now.  The bill has to originate in the now-dem-controlled House and then be passed in the still-R-controlled Senate.  Wonder what the chances of arriving at a mutually passable bill are?

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

They're in a real pickle now.  The bill has to originate in the now-dem-controlled House and then be passed in the still-R-controlled Senate.  Wonder what the chances of arriving at a mutually passable bill are?

While it would still have to pass both houses, it doesn't have to originate in the House.  They moved away from that when they wrote the Constitution.