White House staff might have landed on a way out of shutdown: Lying to the boss about wall funding
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Whether or not 800,000 federal employees get a paycheck for Christmas is entirely up to Individual 1. No one but him wants a government shutdown, and now it's all about someone being able to convince him not to do it. For the Democrats' part, they've heard noWhite House staff might have landed on a way out of shutdown: Lying to the boss about wall funding
Whether or not 800,000 federal employees get a paycheck for Christmas is entirely up to Individual 1. No one but him wants a government shutdown, and now it's all about someone being able to convince him not to do it. For the Democrats' part, they've heard nothing from him about their offer. Senate Republican leadership has no plan. And Trump? Well, he's «frustrated» because «he does not have much leverage in the fight.» That's what two of his advisers told the Washington Post. They say there won't be a shutdown because «there was no way the president could win.» So what's the plan? «The White House plan is to not shut down the government, both of these people said.» How does that happen? Who knows! «He's not going to get $5 billion for the wall,» one of these people said. «They can say on TV all they want that it's going to happen, but it's not going to happen.» That is going to mean convincing him that what Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi told him last week is true. There aren't Republican votes in the House to pass his $5 billion. After House leadership made a half-hearted push to have that vote, but ended up slinking out of town without doing it, the «eventually told the president that there were not enough votes to pass it.» The official White House line now is «At the end of the day we don’t want to shut down the government, we want to shut down the border,» according to Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She didn't say how they were telling her boss that, but it's probably by convincing him that «We have other ways that we can get to that $5 billion.» She says there «a number of different funding sources that we’ve identified that we can use,» although there really aren't. But if he buys that, what the hell. It doesn't help that border patrol is trash. They're actually clamoring for a shutdown. «We would support the president 100 percent if he were to force the government to shut down over wall funding,» Brandon Judd, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, said Monday. «We absolutely, 100 percent, know the importance of the wall.» The union actually wants to work without pay. The other tens of thousands of government employees who will be screwed probably don't agree. But, hey, he made it safe to say «Merry Christmas» in the U.S. again. Merry Christmas and happy shutdown. Read more