Thread by @Monaheart1229

Any chance the GOP could actually be realizing that gutting Fed coffers to avoid actually shutting OUR Gov't down might hurt them in 2020? #ThursdayThoughts #NoWall #GovernmentShutdown
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2/"Senate Republicans are meeting with President Trump on Thursday afternoon to try to sell him on a proposal that would stave off a government shutdown next month but likely stop short of giving him all the money he wants to for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump has been

3/"warned by his staff that he may not get the full $5 billion he has demanded for new wall construction, according to a person briefed on the discussions who was not authorized to reveal deliberations. Senate Democrats say they won’t agree to $5 billion, and Republicans said

4/"they intend to remind the president of the constraints imposed by the 60-vote margin that gives Democrats significant leverage in the Senate. “That’s what we’re going to talk about. That’s what we’ve talked about before, what’s doable. Doable. Not what you want sometimes,

5/"what’s doable,” said Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), who will attend the White House meeting along with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the No. 3 Republican.

6/"Shelby said the message to Trump would be: “Try not to shut the government down, try to avoid that, try to move appropriations.” During the 2016 campaign, Trump vowed to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and have the Mexican government pay for it. But since his

7/"election, he has changed course, saying instead the money must come from Congress and U.S. taxpayers. The total cost of a wall that spans the border is projected to exceed $20 billion, but Trump has signaled he wants at least $5 billion in funds for work over the next year.

8/"He initially threatened to shut down the government on October 1 if Congress didn’t give him the money, but GOP leaders warned such a tactic would hurt them during the midterms. Trump relented under pressure,

9/"in part because he was promised that Republicans would work to secure the money in early December...."
~Excerpt from WaPo, EricaWerner, Damian Paletta, 11/15/18