If the bill is so ābi-partisanā then the Senate needs 67 brave soles (and yes, I did that deliberately) to agreeā¦then it wonāt matter about Donnie and his veiled threats.
āTrump has not made a firm commitment to signing the bill.ā
Heās still waiting for Hannity/Ingram/Putin to give him permissionā¦
I think Trumpās gonna reject the deal just to blast the McCabe 60 Minutes story out of the news cycle.
Nah, he can do that by declaring a state of emergency or signing an executive order to redirect funds to wall-building. Heāll sign.
Maybe itās begun to dawn on him that heās successfully negotiated $25 billion down to $1.375 billion, and further negotiations will very likely get him $0 billion. So much winning.
which provides $1.375 billion in border wall funding
Pelosi said very clearly last week that the bill includes no money for wall construction. Others have said the same thing, that the $1.375 billion is for āborder securityā but does include money for 55 miles of additional fencing.
I wish Tierney and TPM would quit mixing and conflating funding for border security (which includes every element) and building, as Vincente Fox so eloquently termed it, āa fucking wall.ā
If Trump needs to call it āWallā to sign the bill, letās all just call it āWall.ā In Trumpland today, this could be āWall,ā and my attitude is āWhatever you say, dude.ā
With the bill now having passed both houses, it appears that Trump intends to sign it but with a statement tying it to a national emergency to get something like his much-beloved wall. I suspect the idea is to make the signature contingent on that emergency, such that if it gets overturned, the signature is void. I donāt really think it works that way, but when has Trump ever concerned himself with legality and due process? (Yes, that is a rhetorical question.)