Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is accusing President Donald Trump of reneging on a deal he thought they had neared on immigration and spending.
The New York Democrat said on the Senate floor that after a White House meeting Friday with Trump, he thought “in my heart” that senators could complete an agreement by evening. He says he “reluctantly” offered concessions on Trump’s long-sought border wall with Mexico in exchange for strong protections for young immigrants.
Schumer says Trump didn’t try selling the accord to congressional Republican leaders, who wouldn’t accept it. Schumer says Trump “backed off at the first sign of pressure.”
Schumer says of Trump: “It’s almost as if you were rooting for a shutdown. Well, now we’ll have one.”
https://apnews.com/9cd8d25dceed4191a...&utm_medium=AP
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Democrats shut down the government over DACA. That’s the story and that’s the headline—-or should be.
Amusingly, the Twitter headline for this AP link reads:
The Latest: Senate Democrats appear to have derailed a Republican bill aimed at preventing a federal shutdown. [AP on Twitter]
Note the gratuitous word smithing in the above headline. Why can’t AP just say ‘Democrats shut down the government over DACA’? That’s what happened and it’s more concise.
But when you click on the Twitter link it takes you to another headline which reads: “Schumer says Trump backed off deal”.
And here I thought the media might actually blame democrats for a government shutdown, finally. Well they did at first, but they couldn’t follow through with it lol.
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