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This website doesn’t allow me to download all the content. To read President Trump’s tweet go to the link below

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/trump-says-he-will-make-a-major-announcement-on-saturday-about-border-and-shutdown.html

 

 

The president did not provide any further details on what he would be discussing on what is set to be the 28th day of the partial government shutdown.

 

The shutdown is the result of Congress's inability to pass a short-term funding bill for the government that Trump would be willing to sign.

The president has insisted that such a bill contain more than $5 billion in funding to build a border wall. Democrats have refused to agree with that demand.

Trump cited the shutdown when he canceled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland next week. He also called off sending his delegation to the meeting, "out of consideration" of the 800,000 workers not receiving pay because of the shutdown. Press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that Trump wanted his team to be available to "assist as needed."

Earlier Thursday, the president postponed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's planned overseas trip with other members of Congress to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan, shortly before they were scheduled to depart on a military plane. Trump said the trip would be rescheduled when the shutdown ends.

That postponement came a day after the California Democrat sent Trump a letter, urging him to either reschedule his upcoming State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress or deliver it in writing because of the shutdown.

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So what do you think his big announcement will be.  Pick one or add to the list.  Just for grins, no Political spin please.

 

A.   He’s going to claim a National Crisis 

B.   He’s going to shut the Border.

C.  Call the Dems Rats 

D.   Tell us Mexico will pay for the Wall

E.   The Pentagon will give 10 Billion to build the Wall from their budget

F.    Iraq is going to RV their Dinar at 1 to 1 and your 50% Taxes will pay for the Wall

G.  All of the Above

 

 

 

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Protect Dreamers and build the wall, and we can all win

The government shutdown is in its fourth week, with no end in sight because our leaders in Washington don’t seem to want an end that doesn’t amount to political humiliation of the opposition.

But imagine for a moment that President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could see their way to a compromise that Americans would support and that would greatly benefit this country.

To us, it would look like this: The president would get the funding he seeks to enhance border security, including some 230 miles of physical barrier, but also with more technologically sophisticated solutions.

In return, the president would agree to a sweeping deal to protect young people who were brought to this country without authorization at ages when they had no say over what happened to them.

We are speaking here of the Dreamers. That includes the 800,000 young people officially protected from deportation under the law known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. But it also includes an additional 1 million people brought here before their 16th birthday but who have not qualified for DACA for a variety of reasons. Some have committed minor crimes. Others refused to register under DACA for fear that they would be spotlighted and face faster deportation than they would risk if they remained under shadow.

The Dreamers have the sympathy of the American people, and they deserve it. Stories abound of these young people making their way in this country against obstacles of poverty, language and living in homes headed by unauthorized immigrants. Many are exactly who America would hope to have as immigrants. And, of course, they broke no law in coming here. They were children under the agency of adults.

Across the country, meanwhile, rhetoric about Trump’s wall has become distorted in language of morality. The president bears much of the blame for this. From the time of his “bad hombres” comment to his persistent tweets highlighting the worst sort of immigrant, he has courted a sense that he is anti-immigrant. But his opponents on the left are less than honest when they suggest that any attempt to secure our southern border with a physical barrier is unAmerican or immoral.

A deal in which America protects Dreamers and gives them a clear and simple path to citizenship while offering real protection on the border would be a way for both the president and Democratic leaders to walk away from this shutdown as winners. What’s more, the American people would support them.

The only thing that is needed for a deal is leaders on both sides deciding that they can let the other side have something.

 

If that’s not the art of the deal, what is?

 

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2019/01/17/protect-dreamers-build-wall-can-win

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11 hours ago, Pitcher said:

So what do you think his big announcement will be.  Pick one or add to the list.  Just for grins, no Political spin please.

 

A.   He’s going to claim a National Crisis 

B.   He’s going to shut the Border.

C.  Call the Dems Rats 

D.   Tell us Mexico will pay for the Wall

E.   The Pentagon will give 10 Billion to build the Wall from their budget

F.    Iraq is going to RV their Dinar at 1 to 1 and your 50% Taxes will pay for the Wall

G.  All of the Above

 

 

 

lol,  I like the sound of "E" but we know that's just a dream.  The Prez has worn "D" out and now sounds like chicken little with the sky is falling.....I vote "H",  none of the above but feel he may possibly be in line with something about the budget.  No budget passed,  stay here and work including that all must be here for roll call...NO BUDGET, NO GO.  Now that would give a real akin to the Dems  because every other day to them is a holiday.  If they don't  show up for roll call, pay is docked.  All travel will be on their dime!

 

just got a feeling this will be about the budget and of course "the wall" will be part of it.  He knows how to put the hurt on the ones that try to put the hurt on him.  When will they learn that his hurt is 3 times worse than the hurt they inflict.  2: o'clock my time will be interesting.  Time for him to fire the 1st and only shot.  Put'em to rest!

 

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President Trump plans to use remarks from the Diplomatic Reception Room on Saturday afternoon to propose a notable immigration compromise, according to sources familiar with the speech. 

Details: The offer is expected to include Trump’s $5.7 billion demand for wall money in exchange for the BRIDGE Act — which would extend protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) — and also legislation to extend the legal status of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, according to a source with direct knowledge.

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  • Jared Kushner and Mike Pence have led the crafting of this deal and the negotiations with members, according to White House officials. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters he had proposed the idea of a DACA-TPS swap to Trump in December, and that the president called it "interesting."

The backdrop: A source privy to the negotiations told me the inflection point for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was the letter from Nancy Pelosi telling Trump not to deliver the State of the Union. McConnell had been

 

https://www.axios.com/trump-expected-immigration-compromise-speech-border-wall-a8713395-d085-4921-a0c8-699872dcd534.html

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41 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

Pelosi will not accept a compromise.  The Party of NO.  

 

Yep. It will bite the Dems FOR SURE.

 

Here is the closing portion of the article You provided from the link:

 

The big picture: Advocates for the plan argue that by offering the new proposal, Trump is showing he’s willing to negotiate while Pelosi remains unmoved.  But even some top Republicans are skeptical Trump's overture will be enough to break the log jam.

 

Pelosi is CLEARLY the log jam. I suspect the general populace as a whole knows and understands a solution MUST be provided that keeps The United States Of America Citizens safe AND prosperous.

 

I believe time will appropriately swing the understanding to the wall AND all associated measures to ensure immigration is properly regulated AND keeps out terrorists, criminals, AND the flow of drugs.

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'It's gotta end now!' Trump makes case for sweeping immigration reform that will trade a DACA fix for the $5.7 billion he demands for his steel border wall to end 'wide open gateway' for criminal illegal immigrants

  • The president will detail his proposal from the White House Diplomatic Reception Room at 4 pm EST
  • He's expected to extend deportation reprieves in exchange for his $5.7billion border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border
  • His offer may support the Bridge Act which will help 740,000 DACA recipients - people who came to the U.S. illegally as children 
  • The offer is expected to extend Dreamer work permits and deportation reprieves for another three years, if they are revoked 
  • He's faced mounting pressure from Republicans and Congress to end the  shutdown, now in its 29th day, the longest in history 
  • Earlier Saturday Trump urged Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to accept his offer adding she's 'controlled by the radical left'  

 

President Trump outlined a plan to end the government shutdown in a Saturday afternoon address, offering three years of legislative relief for 700,000 DACA recipients — including protection from deportation  —and Temporary PStatus awardees. 

He also offered $800 million in urgent humanitarian assistance, 75 new immigration teams to reduce the court backlog of 900,000 cases, which he called an 'impossible nightmare,' in remarks from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.

In exchange, he said he wants $5.7 billion for the 'strategic deployment of physical barriers, or a wall,' that he will use to put 'steel barriers in high priority locations' along the U.S.-Mexico border.

'I want this to end. It's gotta end now,' he said as the drugs and crime that are coming over the border. 'These are not talking points. These are the heartbreaking realities that are hurting innocent, precious human beings every single day on both sides of the border.' 

President Trump outlined a plan to end the government shutdown in a Saturday afternoon address, offering three years of legislative relief for 700,000 DACA recipients ¿ including protection from deportation ¿and Temporary Protective Status awardees
 
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President Trump outlined a plan to end the government shutdown in a Saturday afternoon address, offering three years of legislative relief for 700,000 DACA recipients — including protection from deportation —and Temporary Protective Status awardees

The president included Democratic priorities, like protection for illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children and TPS protections, after meeting last week with moderate Democrats. 

He said he was offering the compromise solution to 'break the log jam' over illegal immigration and provide a 'path forward to end a government shutdown.'

'It is time to reclaim our future from the extreme voices,' he said of liberals he's been haranguing for months over their alleged support for open borders. ''The radical left can never control our borders,' he later said.

In a slap at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he declared: 'Walls are not immoral. In fact, they are the opposite of immoral.' 

Trump said his compromise will provide the 'best chance in a very long time at real bipartisan immigration reform' in the U.S. Congress.

As it stands, America's immigration system is a 'source of shame,' he claimed, 'all over the world,' and 'not a symbol of unity' but one of government dysfunction.

He promoted the plan as a 'common sense compromise' to conundrum that's been plaguing America for decades, even as he acknowledged t is 'not intended to solve all of our immigration challenges.'

Trump hosted a Naturalization Ceremony for new citizens originally hailing from across the globe an hour before he doubled down on his border wall to keep migrants coming from Mexico out.

Trump's new proposal is expected to extend the legal status of those holding temporary protected status, according to a White House official. 

If goes to plan, it may help 740,000 Dreamers in the U.S. - migrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children. The offer will show support for the Bridge Act and will extend Dreamer work permits and deportation reprieves for three more years if they are revoked. 

His emerging proposal was confirmed by three people familiar with his thinking, according to AP.

Vice President Mike Pence, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney have been working on the proposals, according to one of the people.

President Donald Trump is expected to extend deportation reprieves in exchange for his $5.7billion border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border
 
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President Donald Trump is expected to extend deportation reprieves in exchange for his $5.7billion border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border

President Donald Trump pictured arriving back at the White House on Saturday before his government shutdown address where he will give Democrats his new offer 
 
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President Donald Trump pictured arriving back at the White House on Saturday before his government shutdown address where he will give Democrats his new offer 

Trump's support of the Bridge Act, a bipartisan legislation, would protect the young migrants who are already in the Obama-era program shielding them from deportation, one of the sources said. 

The president also planned to include protections for those with temporary protected status after fleeing countries affected by natural disasters or violence.

However, Trump is known to change his mind and could pursue another course.

The shutdown is now the longest in history in its 29th day on Saturday, and it all started because he refused to sign a spending bill without the $5.7billion wall.  

The partial government shutdown has dragged on to the fury of politicians, hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have gone without pay, and civilians denied federally funded public services. 

But the president has been staunch on his controversial wall. 

'We need the help and the backup of a wall,' the president said earlier Saturday.

The proposal was at first met with skepticism by Democrats who were not consulted about the proposal before hand.  

On Friday Democrats took matters into their own hands to break the impasse by pledging to provide hundreds of millions of more dollars for border security. 

Earlier  Saturday Trump urged Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to accept his offer adding she's 'controlled by the radical left'
 
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Earlier  Saturday Trump urged Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to accept his offer adding she's 'controlled by the radical left'

The White House has declined to provide details about what the president would announce prior to his Shutdown speech. 

Trump was not expected to declare a national emergency, which he has said was an option to circumvent Congress, according to two people familiar with the planning.

'I think it'll be an important statement,' Trump told reporters Saturday before traveling to an air base in Delaware to honor four Americans killed in a suicide bomb attack in Syria this week.    

Whatever the White House proposes will be the first major overture by the president since January 8, when he gave an Oval Office address trying to make the public case for the border wall. 

 

Democrats have said they will not negotiate until the government reopens, raising questions about how Trump might move the ball forward.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said prior to Trump's speech that his expected proposal was 'unacceptable' and compromised of previously rejected solutions.

'Democrats were hopeful that the President was finally willing to re-open government and proceed with a much-need discussion to protect the border,' she said. 'Unfortunately, initial reports make clear that his proposal is a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives.' 

She noted that it doesn't include a 'permanent solution' for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and Temporary Protective Status awardees. 

The new proposal linked to DACA is a bold step for the president, who previously dismissed a deal involving young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. He said he would prefer to see first whether the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program survived a court challenge.

On Friday, the Supreme Court took no action on the Trump administration's request to decide by early summer whether Trump's bid to end that program was legal, meaning it probably will survive at least another year.

His offer may support the Bridge Act which will help 740,000 DACA recipients - people who came to the U.S. illegally as children. Pro DACA and Dreamer supports pictured protesting outside the U.S. capital
 
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His offer may support the Bridge Act which will help 740,000 DACA recipients - people who came to the U.S. illegally as children. Pro DACA and Dreamer supports pictured protesting outside the U.S. capital

The proposal may extend deportation reprieves for Dreamers in exchange for his controversial $5.7billion U.S.-Mexico border wall
 
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The proposal may extend deportation reprieves for Dreamers in exchange for his controversial $5.7billion U.S.-Mexico border wall

DACA protesters pictured above protesting on January 15
 

DACA protesters pictured above protesting on January 15

But during a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump hinted at the possibility, saying he would consider working on the wall and DACA 'simultaneously.'

Lawmakers have pitched similar compromises between the wall and DACA. 

Senator Lindsey Graham previously spoke about a deal that will include $5billion in wall funding coupled the Bridge Act and a fix for nearly 400,000 immigrants in the Temporary Protective Status program whose status has been jeopardized by the administration's decision to roll back that program.

A previous attempt to reach a compromise that addressed the status of 'Dreamers' broke down a year ago as a result of escalating White House demands.

Democrats are now proposing $563 million to hire 75 more immigration judges, who currently face large backlogs processing cases, and $524 million to improve ports of entry in Calexico, California, and San Luis, Arizona, a Democratic House aide said. 

The money would be added to spending bills, largely negotiated between the House and Senate, which the House plans to vote on next week.

In addition, Democrats were working toward adding money for more border security personnel and for sensors and other technology to a separate bill financing the Department of Homeland Security, but no funds for a wall or other physical barriers, the anonymous aide said.

In a video posted on his Twitter feed late Friday, Trump said both sides should 'take the politics out of it' and 'get to work' to 'make a deal.' But he also repeated his warnings, saying: 'We have to secure our southern border. If we don't do that, we're a very, very sad and foolish lot.'

While the humanitarian crisis unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border is undeniable, many question Trump's hard-line demand for a shockingly expensive wall.  

But critics say Trump has dramatically exaggerated the security risks and they argue that a wall would do little to solve existing problems.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6609533/Trump-plans-major-announcement-border-longest-shutdown.html

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6 minutes ago, Synopsis said:

Pelosi is CLEARLY the log jam. I suspect the general populace as a whole knows and understands a solution MUST be provided that keeps The United States Of America Citizens safe AND prosperous.

 

RESISTANCE, NOTHING WILL GET DONE IN DC for the next 2 years.  I say shut down the entire government until Pelosi begins to negotiate.  

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20 minutes ago, Pitcher said:

 

RESISTANCE, NOTHING WILL GET DONE IN DC for the next 2 years.  I say shut down the entire government until Pelosi begins to negotiate.  

 

RESISTANCE may be the ONLY thing the Dems can provide. RESISTANCE like a log jam. The Nancy Pelosi log jam.

 

I agree, keep the entire government shut down going UNTIL Nancy Pelosi APPROVES all the wall AND other provisions The True The United States Of America Patriot President Donald J Trump has provided.

 

I suspect THIS is a brilliant ploy in the works by The True The United States Of America Patriot President Donald J Trump. Nancy Pelosi DOES NOT provide an ACCEPTABLE solution - Nancy Pelosi will hear, "YOU'RE FIRED - NOW!!!"!!! from more than JUST The True The United States Of America Patriot President Donald J Trump.

 

Besides, the longer the Dems provide RESISTANCE, the more crazy stuff THEY are doing will come to light. Dems - the Party of Nothing - At Least NOTHING Good!!!

 

End of ALL this, I think The True The United States Of America Patriot President Donald J Trump will provide MORE for The True The United States Of America Patriot Citizens than what he has NOW on the table.

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Shouting, near fisticuffs, emotions high: Today's Washington could get worse

 

By early Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., had traded insults several times. Pelosi called for a delay of Trump's planned Jan. 29 State of the Union address as long as portions of the government were shut down. The president then revoked military support for her weekend trip to visit troops in Afghanistan.

A couple days earlier, the House rebuked Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, for a history of racially and ethnically charged remarks, the latest his questioning of how "white supremacy" had become offensive.

"We have just been through a very difficult week," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. lamented.

Could it get worse?

Yes, it can. It almost did. And it still might.

Hoyer's comments came Thursday as he tried to restore calm to a rambunctious House after a fairly innocuous set of votes turned the chamber into a tinderbox of raw emotions. Republicans accused Democrats of trying to steal a vote, Democrats accused Republicans of not paying attention to the floor proceedings and, finally, a GOP lawmaker shouted "go back to Puerto Rico."

Tensions flared and lawmakers walked toward each other in the well of the House.

The chance of physical confrontation seemed to grow by the second, a cross between a Spike Lee movie where one remark turns an entire neighborhood into flames and a moment inside the regular brawls that occur in Taiwan's parliament.

 

Cooler heads prevailed, mostly because of Hoyer and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and their agreement to a do-over vote Wednesday. Scalise joked that maybe he could whip enough votes for the minority to actually win.

"I don't want to get too carried away," Scalise told Hoyer, "but I appreciate that we were able to resolve this, and I know tensions got a little heated."

The tension is only going to grow in coming days. The partial shutdown of federal agencies is now in its fifth week, an unprecedented duration. No serious negotiations have taken place since Trump walked out of a meeting of bipartisan congressional leaders after Pelosi said she had no intention of funding a border wall.

Starting Friday about 800,000 federal workers will begin missing their second round of paychecks during the standoff, just as monthly bills for mortgages, rents, utilities and credit cards come due.

 

Yet the Senate has adjourned with no votes planned until the end of the month, unless a deal is somehow struck. However, with no votes, there will be very few senators here in Washington, diminishing the chance for any dealmaking.

The House will be in session, but that might not help matters much. Lawmakers had planned to use the week as time to work back in their districts, a particularly key period for the almost 100 freshmen serving their first weeks in office.

Some newcomers had scheduled town halls to connect with their new constituents and explain what has been happening in the Capitol - those will now likely be canceled. Some veterans planned to use the break to travel abroad on congressional delegations to meet with foreign dignitaries.

Trump's actions blocking Pelosi's travels and the House votes have likely nixed any other congressional travel. A normal week in the Capitol can be contentious enough.

A week when no one planned to be in Washington is a recipe for disaster, to the point where maybe a physical confrontation is not too far off.

These near-clashes have happened before, often when the House majority flips and those newly in the minority feel disrespected. In 1995, a few months after Republicans seized the majority for the first time in 40 years, Democrat Sam Gibbons, 75 at the time, grabbed the tie of a GOP subcommittee chairman, then-Rep. Bill Thomas, after a Ways and Means Committee meeting on Medicare policy.

Gibbons told The Washington Post in 2003 he actually wanted to choke Thomas.

In 2007, seven months into their new minority status, Republicans accused Democrats of stealing a procedural vote by banging the gavel shut before all votes were cast. Pelosi, in her first year as speaker, created a special committee to investigate, the ranking Republican being a backbencher named Mike Pence, R-Ind.

The future vice president called the mostly inconsequential procedural vote "a dark moment in the history of the United States."

Last week's clash recalled that 2007 dispute, but this came during a much darker period of the nation's political state - a combustible mix of racial, gender and ethnic politics amid a shutdown of federal agencies.

House Democrats had already approved seven bills that would have reopened the entire government. Thursday's proposal served as the most basic of all: a one-page bill opening those impacted agencies at last year's budget levels until Feb. 28.

Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C., a former judge who was presiding, asked if anyone wanted a recorded vote on the measure. No Republican spoke up, so he moved to the next vote.

Some Republicans wrongly accused Butterfield of not holding a full vote, shouting at him as he left the dais.

"Go back to Puerto Rico," Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., yelled from the GOP side of the aisle. It was in the direction of Rep. Tony Cárdenas, D-Calif., who is of Mexican descent.

Cardenas took the remark as an ethnic slur and charged toward Republicans, one of Pelosi's senior staffers at his side. He shouted at Republicans, asking who said it. No one took ownership.

Later, Smith called Cardenas to apologize and asked to meet in person, saying he meant to mock the several dozen Democrats who went to Puerto Rico the previous weekend, not to single anyone out for their ethnicity.

"I accepted his apology," Cárdenas told The Hill.

Democrats agreed to hold a full vote on the same bill Wednesday and Scalise acknowledged Butterfield had done nothing wrong. He thanked him for his "fairness."

Hoyer issued a final warning about the tone of the chamber, decrying "undertones of prejudice or racism or any kind of -ism."

"We need to be civil to one another, we need to be polite to one another even," he said.

It can't get any worse. Right?

 

https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Shouting-near-fisticuffs-emotions-high-Today-s-13546818.php

 

 

 

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