Pelosi pushes for 'clean' short-term funding bill now, delaying border wall fight for ... later
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House Democratic leadership is kicking the can down the road on a big funding fight over Donald Trump’s border wall that could lead to another government shutdown. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders plan to pass a short-term funding bill thPelosi pushes for 'clean' short-term funding bill now, delaying border wall fight for ... later
House Democratic leadership is kicking the can down the road on a big funding fight over Donald Trump’s border wall that could lead to another government shutdown. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders plan to pass a short-term funding bill this week that doesn’t change anything or challenge Trump’s immigration policies, with the big fight to come as that bill expires in November. “Pelosi has been firm in telling her caucus that Democrats needed to back a ‘clean’ funding measure,” Politico reports, “and so far, many progressives and Latino Democrats have agreed to hold their fire for later this fall, unwilling to block the bill and take blame for a shutdown.” Progressive Democrats have been expressing concerns about not pushing back harder on Trump’s military construction money grab. Rep. Lloyd Doggett told Politico in a statement, “A short-term CR may be understandable, but longer-term appropriations that do not contain enforceable limitations on his power grab will only encourage his continued wrongdoing.” The question is when and how and how hard Pelosi will pick the fight—having put it off until November, will she put it off again? Will Trump seize the day and force another shutdown? And while the fight waits, Trump keeps snatching military construction funds for his wall. Read more