Pelosi, Schumer To Trump: "Let's Debate Border Funds in Private"

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(01-07-2019, 01:55 PM)bfine32 Wrote: If this is why the Senate passed bill was not voted on by the house then the GOP should be shamed.

Both parties are guilty of tactics like this, refusing to even consider legislation, likely out of fear that their party may actually vote against leadership. In this case, it's the Republicans. I imagine Pelosi would do the same if a Republican introduced a funding bill with border wall funding. 

I believe the talking point was "we will not consider legislation that does not include border wall funding", but I think House Republican leadership feared their party would support it and was actually seeking to protect Trump because if the bill passed and he vetoed it, the shutdown would be squarely on him. Now Mitch McConnell feels compelled to do the same.