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Every trumper is a N4T.
More empty bullshit from the Threatener in Chief.
Watch him back down on this like a cowering whipped dog the same way he backs down on everything else after running his big, fat, puckered butthole looking mouth.
Trump warns shutdown could last 'very long time,' urges McConnell to go 'nuclear' and end filibuster
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna950746
"Mitch, use the Nuclear Option and get it done! Our Country is counting on you!" Trump tweeted
By Liz Johnstone
President Donald Trump on Friday warned Senate Democrats that if they don't vote for his border wall, there will be a "very long" government shutdown beginning Friday night. And he pressured Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to use the "nuclear option," which would end the right to filibuster legislation in the Senate and allow the bill to pass with a simple majority.
The "nuclear option" refers to a last-resort way for the majority party in the Senate to overcome objection by the minority, and it involves using a simple majority of 51 votes rather than 60.
But McConnell seemed unwilling to cave on the issue of the filibuster just hours ahead of an expected vote on a new stopgap funding measure that includes the $5 billion Trump demanded from Congress for his wall.
"The Leader has said for years that the votes are not there in the Conference to use the nuclear option. Just this morning, several Senators put out statements confirming their opposition, and confirming that there is not a majority in the conference to go down that road," McConnell's spokesman, David Popp, said in a statement.
Republican senators, including McConnell and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, are currently meeting with Trump at the White House.
Multiple Republican senators said on Friday that they don't support doing away with the legislative filibuster.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who is retiring this month after serving four decades in the Senate, recalled his long history of using and supporting the filibuster to great effect, something another GOP lawmaker, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, also recalled in a statement vowing not to vote for such a dramatic change.
Hatch's Twitter account flashed back to 1978, and tweeted a quote from him speaking in 2016: "I'm one of the biggest advocates for the filibuster," he said. "It's the only way to protect the minority, and we've been in the minority a lot more than we've been in the majority. It's just a great, great protection for the minority."
"The Senate filibuster is about the only mechanism left in Washington that brings the parties together. Deploying the nuclear option would blow that up," retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said on Twitter. "I will not vote to do it."
Alexander, who recently announced he won't run for re-election in 2020, also noted that the filibuster "protects the minority, and for most of the last 70 years, conservatives and Republicans have been in the minority."
"We are a nation that prizes the rule of law. How can we expect Americans to follow the rules when their number one rule making institution, the U.S. Senate, will not follow its own rules?" he said in a statement.
"We have rules to follow. I want to put a stop to this practice of the Senate breaking its rules to change its rules. I will not vote to turn the Senate into a rule-breaking institution and I hope that my colleagues will not."
McConnell himself has said in the past that triggering the "nuclear option" in order to pass legislation was "not going to happen" because doing so would fundamentally change how the Senate operates.
"There is an overwhelming majority on a bipartisan basis not interested in changing the way the Senate operates on the legislative calendar, and that will not happen," McConnell said in May 2017, adding that "it would fundamentally change how the Senate has worked for a very long time and it's not going to happen."
The new stopgap spending measure, which passed the House on Thursday night by a 217-185 vote, includes more than $5 billion for the president's long-promised wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., a member of the Appropriations Committee, suggested in a tweet shortly after the House vote that the Senate eliminate the right to filibuster legislation in order to pass the bill — a notion Trump thanked him for on Twitter Friday.
But the measure's odds in the Senate are low as the shutdown deadline looms. Parts of the government are set to run out of operating authority after Friday, and Trump warned in a tweet that "if the Dems vote no, there will be a shutdown that will last for a very long time."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., indicated Friday that he hadn't talked to the president. When asked if he was optimistic about the outcome of the White House meeting between Trump and GOP lawmakers, he said, "Every meeting with Republicans and the president, things have gotten worse."
Schumer said there are three offers on the table for Trump that would avert a shutdown — one that came from Schumer, and others that came from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
"He ought to take one of them," he said.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Friday that the White House should have just told lawmakers directly that it opposed the Senate's version of a short-term spending bill — which did not include $5 billion in border wall funding — before "we wasted time voting on it" on Wednesday.
It's not about the wall, Rubio said on Twitter, but how Democrats are denying the president "a win."
And just before the House vote Thursday night, Schumer said he had no confidence that the Senate would pass its version of the bill.
"Everyone knows it will not pass the Senate. Speaker Ryan, Leader McCarthy have cynically put it on the floor of the House, knowing it can't pass the Senate," Schumer said, referring to House GOP leadership.
Trump's tweets Friday morning, meanwhile, were a turnabout from his declaration last week that he would "take the mantle" of a government shutdown if Congress didn't give him funds for the border wall he vowed Mexico would pay for.
"If we don't get what we want one way or the other ... I will shut down the government," Trump said at the time, amid a highly unusual public spat with Schumer and Pelosi. "I am proud to shut down the government for border security. ... I will take the mantle of shutting it down."
When asked by reporters on Friday why the president is now labeling the possible shutdown a "Democratic shutdown," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said only: "The House has passed it. The president supports it. We have legislation on the floor that everybody should be behind."
Watch him back down on this like a cowering whipped dog the same way he backs down on everything else after running his big, fat, puckered butthole looking mouth.
Trump warns shutdown could last 'very long time,' urges McConnell to go 'nuclear' and end filibuster
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna950746
"Mitch, use the Nuclear Option and get it done! Our Country is counting on you!" Trump tweeted
By Liz Johnstone
President Donald Trump on Friday warned Senate Democrats that if they don't vote for his border wall, there will be a "very long" government shutdown beginning Friday night. And he pressured Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to use the "nuclear option," which would end the right to filibuster legislation in the Senate and allow the bill to pass with a simple majority.
The "nuclear option" refers to a last-resort way for the majority party in the Senate to overcome objection by the minority, and it involves using a simple majority of 51 votes rather than 60.
But McConnell seemed unwilling to cave on the issue of the filibuster just hours ahead of an expected vote on a new stopgap funding measure that includes the $5 billion Trump demanded from Congress for his wall.
"The Leader has said for years that the votes are not there in the Conference to use the nuclear option. Just this morning, several Senators put out statements confirming their opposition, and confirming that there is not a majority in the conference to go down that road," McConnell's spokesman, David Popp, said in a statement.
Republican senators, including McConnell and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, are currently meeting with Trump at the White House.
Multiple Republican senators said on Friday that they don't support doing away with the legislative filibuster.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who is retiring this month after serving four decades in the Senate, recalled his long history of using and supporting the filibuster to great effect, something another GOP lawmaker, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, also recalled in a statement vowing not to vote for such a dramatic change.
Hatch's Twitter account flashed back to 1978, and tweeted a quote from him speaking in 2016: "I'm one of the biggest advocates for the filibuster," he said. "It's the only way to protect the minority, and we've been in the minority a lot more than we've been in the majority. It's just a great, great protection for the minority."
"The Senate filibuster is about the only mechanism left in Washington that brings the parties together. Deploying the nuclear option would blow that up," retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., said on Twitter. "I will not vote to do it."
Alexander, who recently announced he won't run for re-election in 2020, also noted that the filibuster "protects the minority, and for most of the last 70 years, conservatives and Republicans have been in the minority."
"We are a nation that prizes the rule of law. How can we expect Americans to follow the rules when their number one rule making institution, the U.S. Senate, will not follow its own rules?" he said in a statement.
"We have rules to follow. I want to put a stop to this practice of the Senate breaking its rules to change its rules. I will not vote to turn the Senate into a rule-breaking institution and I hope that my colleagues will not."
McConnell himself has said in the past that triggering the "nuclear option" in order to pass legislation was "not going to happen" because doing so would fundamentally change how the Senate operates.
"There is an overwhelming majority on a bipartisan basis not interested in changing the way the Senate operates on the legislative calendar, and that will not happen," McConnell said in May 2017, adding that "it would fundamentally change how the Senate has worked for a very long time and it's not going to happen."
The new stopgap spending measure, which passed the House on Thursday night by a 217-185 vote, includes more than $5 billion for the president's long-promised wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., a member of the Appropriations Committee, suggested in a tweet shortly after the House vote that the Senate eliminate the right to filibuster legislation in order to pass the bill — a notion Trump thanked him for on Twitter Friday.
But the measure's odds in the Senate are low as the shutdown deadline looms. Parts of the government are set to run out of operating authority after Friday, and Trump warned in a tweet that "if the Dems vote no, there will be a shutdown that will last for a very long time."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., indicated Friday that he hadn't talked to the president. When asked if he was optimistic about the outcome of the White House meeting between Trump and GOP lawmakers, he said, "Every meeting with Republicans and the president, things have gotten worse."
Schumer said there are three offers on the table for Trump that would avert a shutdown — one that came from Schumer, and others that came from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
"He ought to take one of them," he said.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said Friday that the White House should have just told lawmakers directly that it opposed the Senate's version of a short-term spending bill — which did not include $5 billion in border wall funding — before "we wasted time voting on it" on Wednesday.
It's not about the wall, Rubio said on Twitter, but how Democrats are denying the president "a win."
And just before the House vote Thursday night, Schumer said he had no confidence that the Senate would pass its version of the bill.
"Everyone knows it will not pass the Senate. Speaker Ryan, Leader McCarthy have cynically put it on the floor of the House, knowing it can't pass the Senate," Schumer said, referring to House GOP leadership.
Trump's tweets Friday morning, meanwhile, were a turnabout from his declaration last week that he would "take the mantle" of a government shutdown if Congress didn't give him funds for the border wall he vowed Mexico would pay for.
"If we don't get what we want one way or the other ... I will shut down the government," Trump said at the time, amid a highly unusual public spat with Schumer and Pelosi. "I am proud to shut down the government for border security. ... I will take the mantle of shutting it down."
When asked by reporters on Friday why the president is now labeling the possible shutdown a "Democratic shutdown," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said only: "The House has passed it. The president supports it. We have legislation on the floor that everybody should be behind."