OK, thatâs it, End of story. No doubt that there will be a shut-down.
Who cares if federal employees are furloughed â as long as ratings are good. Human beings can live off ratings, right? Right?
Hello?
He then claimed he was confident about people not discovering his erotic Danger Mouse fanfiction
Then theyâll all agree that a govât. shutdown is imminent. Thanks Spice Boy.
o/t - just want to share a twitter feed that got sent to Laura Rozen (where I saw it) - what happens when twitter finds 2 state department websites promoting Mar a Lago: https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/856571120459423749
**âHow confident are you that there will not be a shutdown?â**ABCâs Jon Karl asked Spicer at his daily briefing. âCan you, from that podium, guarantee that there will not be a government shutdown?â
âI canât guarantee â but I think that the work that Director Mulvaney and others have made in these negotiations has been very positive,â Spicer replied, referring to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. âThey feel very confident that that wonât happen.â
so far, so good
âSo he wonât insist that his priorities get funded on the border, the wall, increased security?â Karl asked. President Donald Trump has pushed for funding for his proposed border wall to be included in the spending bill.
âThatâs not what I said,â Spicer said. âLook, theyâre currently negotiating. We feel very confident that they understand the Presidentâs priorities and that weâll come to an agreement by the end of Friday.â
its not even Wednesday.
What worries me is that heâs not blaming the Democrats. This omission show how rattled he is.
Once again Spicey reassures us he knows jack shit about nothingâŚ
âitâs sad that this administration doesnât want to try to be responsible.â
He realizes that they will own this shutdown.
leave DM out of it
I expect Trump will cave on the border wall funding. Shutting down the government to insist on U.S. taxpayers paying billions to fund the wall that he so loudly promised would be funded by Mexico is a very hard position to defend. And since Democrats are likely to stand fast even if there is a shut-down (since the shutdown would blamed on Trump and the GOP), Trump would eventually have to cave on that anyway. So I think he will pre-cave to avoid the shutdown.
After his embarrassing Obamacare Repeal fiasco, and approaching the 100 day mark, he and the GOP really need to show that, at the very least, they can meet the bare minimum standard of keeping the doors open and the lights on.
So, I think they will find some face-saving formula where he gets some additional border and homeland security funds, but nothing directly for âthe wall,â and despite that he calls it a huge victory for border security. And then goes back to pitching his imaginary âbiggest tax cut everâ and his imaginary âbest health care plan everâ and so on.
So success for this administration = keeping the lights on in absence of any calamity
we are so f-ed
Hey aholesâŚit didnt work with the HFC and it wont work with the demsâŚ
$10 sez that if trump doesnt get his wall down payment he will pull the money from ACA and screw everyone over.
Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress and they still canât avert a shutdown??
Amateurs.
No he doesnât. Everything bad is the Democratâs fault. Republican failures to do anything, good or bad, is all the Democratâs fault. Republicanâs own no sense of public responsibility. None! There is nothing good in the Republican world, so Democrats own everything. Democrats are even to blame for 45âs massive (low) approval ratings.
