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

[Belsnickel]

(01-07-2019, 01:55 PM)GMDino Wrote: After Trump refused to sign the first one?

This is how it all went: the Senate passed a bill, unanimously, to fund the government at current levels throughout the fiscal year, except for DHS, which it would fund for a month so that further discussions could be had about border security. Then Trump got called out by Coulter and some of the other talking heads for caving, so he buckled down. At this point, the House leadership wouldn't put the Senate bill on the floor because doing so would've meant the passage, with a veto-proof majority, of a bill Trump didn't want.

(01-07-2019, 03:45 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: 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. 

Yup, this is spot on. What makes this instance a bit more obvious than others is that the Senate is now refusing to consider a bill it has already passed once, with a veto-proof majority. But while this instance seems more egregious than others, it isn't a tactic either side has a monopoly on.