President Trump successfully negotiates with world leaders and some of the world’s most difficult dictators (North Korea), but the Democrats won’t even sit down with the President, which tells you everything you need to know about these destroyers.
Democrats boycott White House border security meeting
Congressional Democrats on Tuesday rejected President Trump’s invitation to a lunch meeting at the White House to discuss border security, in the latest sign that both sides of the government shutdown standoff remain entrenched in their positions with no compromise in sight.
By Brooke Singman | Fox News | January 19, 2019:
Story continues below advertisementCongressional Democrats on Tuesday rejected President Trump’s invitation to a lunch meeting at the White House to discuss border security, in the latest sign that both sides of the government shutdown standoff remain entrenched in their positions with no compromise in sight.
A senior administration official told Fox News that the president had invited Democrats to join his lunch with members of Congress in the Roosevelt Room shortly after noon. But moments before the session, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that nobody took them up on the offer.
“The President has a proposal on the table that includes additional technology at ports of entry, allows minors from Central America to seek asylum in their home country, and physical barriers between ports of entry made of steel instead of concrete,” she said. “Today, the President offered both Democrats and Republicans the chance to meet for lunch at the White House. Unfortunately, no Democrats will attend. The President looks forward to having a working lunch with House Republicans to solve the border crisis and reopen the government.
“It’s time for the Democrats to come to the table and make a deal.”
She said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer “refuse to negotiate.”
Trump, however, did not invite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, instead reaching out to rank-and-file Democrats including centrist Democrats from districts where Trump is popular. A Pelosi aide reportedly said she gave lawmakers her blessing to attend, telling her leadership team that other congressional Democrats can see what she and others have dealt with during the shutdown.
Pelosi predicted that after meeting with Trump, the lawmakers would want to make a “citizen’s arrest,” according to the aide.
But the lawmakers ultimately decided not to attend. The meeting boycott leaves unclear how and when both sides might negotiate a resolution to the partial shutdown, which was triggered when Trump demanded nearly $6 billion for a border wall and Democrats refused — and is now the longest in U.S. history.
TRUMP SUGGESTS PELOSI SHOULD STOP GETTING A PAYCHECK AMID SHUTDOWN
The last meeting with Democratic leaders did not end well. Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sat down last week with Trump, but Schumer said it ended when the president “just got up and walked out.”
“He asked Speaker Pelosi, ‘will you agree to my wall?’ She said no. And he just got up, and said, ‘Well, we’ve got nothing to discuss,” Schumer said last week.
Pelosi, after the meeting, said the president was “petulant,” and Schumer added that Trump slammed his hand on a table in frustration and had a “temper tantrum”—a move Trump, Vice President Pence and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy later denied.
Trump rejected the account, tweeting that “Cryin’ Chuck” Schumer “told his favorite lie when he used his standard sound bite that I ‘slammed the table & walked out of the room. He had a temper tantrum.’ Because I knew he would say that, and after Nancy said no to proper border security, I politely said bye-bye and left, no slamming!”
TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON BORDER WALL, AS POLLS SHOW VOTERS TURNING AGAINST HIS SHUTDOWN STRATEGY
Trump initially requested $5.7 billion in funding for security and construction of the wall, citing the “humanitarian crisis” and “invasion” at the border as reasons. Democrats have vowed to block any type of spending package that would involve funds to build a wall along the Southern border.
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But Trump has continued to press for wall funding, tweeting Tuesday: “A big new Caravan is heading up to our Southern Border from Honduras. Tell Nancy and Chuck that a drone flying around will not stop them. Only a Wall will work. Only a Wall, or Steel Barrier, will keep our Country safe! Stop playing political games and end the Shutdown!”
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Yah, leave it shut down. Shut down all of it and don’t pay any more taxes. Enough will come in from the go fund me account to pay for the wall and the border patrol from dedicated patriots. We have our state governments which are all less than 5hrs. away and where you can get something meaningful done. Shut it all down. What are they fixing that they weren’t responsible for creating in the 1st place.
The vast majority of federal employees, currently laid off, are worthless pieces of drek that earn FAR more (wage-benefit package) than they’d receive in the private sector. Most are not very skilled, or knowledgeable .. and almost ALL of them have NO work ethic. Keep the damned thing shut down … do NOT offer any back pay … Just fire the lot … The country will get along just fine, perhaps far better, without them.
Let those worthless, lazy, vastly over compensated, useless things go … and let them find out about the real world.
I agree. We don’t need them. The government runs without them.
I really don’t understand why they should get back pay when they weren’t working.
Wow! Ain’t that the truth.
Ziggy46,
You don’t understand. These illegals are our future. Can’t you see? They are future doctors, scientists and eager workers. Obama assured us they were sending their “best and brightest.” Medical schools, colleges and universities will quickly snap them up for “diversity” reasons to show they’re not bigoted, racist, Islmaphobic etc. They will prefer them over legal American citizens based on merit. It’s just one glorious salad bowl mosaic! Of course you know I am being caustic.
http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/migration6_1.jpg?1403623467
No one is shocked by the Democrats boycotting The White House Border Security Meeting; traitorous to the end. Those Americans within the Democrats’ fold are equally treasonous and are undeserved of the name American citizen. Let the fetid party, the Democrats, RINOS and others who are hell-bent on the Republic’s downfall. The Leftist horde is playing a dangerous game, their subversive intent, hopefully, will blow up in their faces. Democrats have always underestimated Patriotism, as their totalitarian worldview is sponsored by the leftist elites, the privileged, generational neer do wells, do-nothing spongers, and illegal migrants.
Trump is a Patriot, his not backing down to this throng of aspirant, wannabe Bolsheviks’ wanton treason. The refusal to attend this essential Security Meeting betrays their subversive intentions.
It’s disgusting. I am getting impatient but I suppose he has to go through the “process” to show he has been more than reasonable to get the dam wall and additional security in place before declaring a national emergency. 20,000 more are on the way! They won’t want to stay in Mexico. They want to come here.
The illegals are sponsored, encouraged and enabled by the Democrats. As shown, it is a treasonous plot introduced by the betrayer, ‘Yes We Can’, Obama; he has loathed the Republic for decades and when handed the presidency, the undermining of America began. His disciples remain stalwart in support of this menace to America.
It has’nt just been soetoro – this ” can ” has’nt just been kicked ” down the road ” its been kicked around the damn planet a couple of times..
I must confess to some ignorance regarding the process Trump has gone through with this wall. My question concerns what he tried to do prior to the Nov. elections. His push right now is way more intense than it has ever been, but what held him back before this.
Risking a very real potential of loosing Congress, should have made it a priority before that became a reality. Given the number of incumbent Rep. that were not running again, it left too much uncertainty for the future of the project. That almost seems uncharacteristic of the business side of him, but maybe I’m missing something here.
One of the first thing he did was try to leverage DACA for a wall.
Then he UPPED the amount of illegals, with strings, and DEMS rejected that.
DEMS want OPEN BORDERS, MASS IMMIGRATION for votes
The GOP is more partial to VISAs for educated labor and open borders for cheap labor.
mejico don’t want them either so why are they even allowing them into their country?
There are things that need attention:
– build wall
– no more weapons to Saudi Arabia, new Muhammadist Nigeria & other Muhammadist organisations
– no more negotiating with Saudi Arabia
– freedom for the African slaves*, atheists & others in Saudi Arabia to Mauritania
– no more money to Fatah, Pakistan & so on
– make Syria an American state without Mosques
– ban Mosques including loudspeakers in the USA
– make clitodirectomy illegal again in the USA
– remove the Muhammadist censors from Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, education & government
– free the man incarcerated for 15 years in Florida for Anti-mosque protest
– release the report on Saudi Arabia’s & Iran’s involvement in the Twin Tower-attacks
– stop plastic & mercury waste-disposal in the oceans
– dissolve Fatah, Iran, Turkey & so on & free the prisinors
– give me the presidency.
*Africans are enslaved, castrated, divorced, beaten & killed today in Saudi Arabia & enslaved in the UAE, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, North-Sudan, Libya (surge), Algeria (surge), Mauritania (20 percent), Niger, Mali, Somalia, Nigeria in emulation of unjust Muhammad who started the global African slave-trade by saying his unproven deity had turned Africans black so Africans’ descendants would be slaves to Arabs & Turks.
Trump could have instead directed Mitch McConnell to hold a vote on Ted Cruz’s proposal…which would (if he’s convicted) confiscate El Chapo’s seized assets domestically and direct that into a lockbox for the border wall. Since that money isn’t coming from taxpayers, it’s less likely to draw opposition from Democrats than any other proposal. Trump’s silence on that is deafening!
The democRATS boycotting the border security meeting must make all those furloughed or working unpaid government workers, 95% who are democRATS, feel real good as they will have to keep waiting for their next pay check.
SCHUMER & PELOSI are DEMONcrats, $atanists, LIARS, THIEVES, TREASONOUS TRAITORS.
The WALL was funded several years ago – TRUMP knows this – the funds were misappropriated, STOLEN – SCHUMER & PELOSI got their hands caught in the cookie jar.
IFF EVIL, VILE WITCH HILLARY got into office all would be forgotten!
Justice MUST be served! Send them to GITMO!
Having read “The Art of the Deal”, Trump is only giving the commiecrats enough rope to hang themselves, eventually getting his wall.
After all, he wrote the book on the subject, right? He didn’t become a success in that vicious NYC commercial real estate market on mere blind ambition.
I haven’t read his book but I believe you are right.
He appears to be boxing them in so they have no defense on not building the wall.
They will have no legitimate excuse … having said that I am IMPATIENT!
great book by the way.I agree with you Trump knows the ropes
The MSM is lying as usual. The blame for the shutdown lies squarely on the Commiecrats who do not want effective border security and demand the flood of undocumented, unskilled, criminals be continued indefinitely. The fact is that each one of these illegals is costing this country $100,000 annually in welfare,law enforcement, educational costs, waste collection, infrastructure use, escalating out of control medical costs,and the low wages suffered by native American workers. With 40 million already here (these are estimates from the State of Texas) the cost is a staggering $4 trillion dollars a year! Yet, we wonder why we run huge state,local and federal deficits, our infrastructure crumbles, our prisons are full, our medical facilities overwhelmed, our school rooms overcrowded underfunded, our welfare systems bankrupt, our pension funds bankrupt? This answer is simple and it is clear,and it is the $4 Trillion we waste annually on the 40 million illegals and their spawn who are already here,and the Commiecrates want more? There objective is to break the American Middle class ( yes, the deplorables), and,so far,they have been very successful. People Have to realize why this shutdown is so important to their lives and their children’;s lives and well being.
Not when Ted Cruz has proposed a plan to solve the problem, but it means that Donald Trump doesn’t get the credit. Why can’t Trump just demand a vote on Ted Cruz’s plan? It uses no taxpayer money at all.
Well said, but logic doesn’t make sense anymore (lol, as if)
‘Pelosi, after the meeting, said the president was “petulant,”
A classic case of projection!
Am I the only one that notices that pelosi is losing it? She is not dealing with a “full deck”!!!
The other crook, (schumer) is behaving like her lapdog and yapping in unison with her (pelosi).
Fund the WALL, BUILD THE WALL.
WHY would you allow a – minor – regardless of where they are apply for asylum ? Its fuc-ing ludicrous.As if a minor has the EXPERIENCE to make a decision such as that..Then if by some chance he/she gets granted asylum then how many relatives can they bring in?
Just like DJT is not going to give a SOTU speech to the House, and he’ll give it to you in writing on the 29th as required by the Constitution. But on the 28th, he’ll address the nation from the oval office in prime time, laying out same info. I’m pretty sure you’ll get the worst of the deal, Nan.