Trump Lashes Out After Schumer Withdraws Offer On Border Wall

Flake said Sunday night he was now a “yes” on the funding bill and it was his hope that six or seven more moderate Democrats would come on board to get the continuing resolution over the finish line – to 60 votes – to end the shutdown.

Democrats, who banded together to help defeat a funding bill late Friday, signaled a wary acceptance of the Republican offer.

Perdue, who did not attend the White House meeting on Friday, but said he has learned details about it, said that the agreement over $25 billion is an encouraging sign.

Senate Democrats “caved. They blinked”.

U.S. politicians worked through the weekend to reach a deal, as each side blamed the other for the shutdown.

“We’re going to demand that they reopen the government”, Pence said.

“He went to the mats”, said Frank Sharry, the executive director of the immigration advocacy group America’s Voice.

“Big win for Republicans as Democrats cave on Shutdown”, he wrote on Twitter. They include Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris of California, Sen.

“This immigration debate will have a level playing field at the outset and an amendment process that is fair to all sides”, McConnell said.

Let’s keep in mind this is the same party that is always telling us if we shut down the government, this will be a travesty for millions of Americans, so many government programs and services will be unmet.

US lawmakers on Tuesday sought a way forward on an immigration deal including protection for “Dreamer” immigrants and border security before federal funding runs out again next month.

“Well, there’s conversations already started, bipartisan conversation, about whether we can come up with a bipartisan Senate bill before February 8”, said Senate No. 2 Democrat Dick Durbin, who had been pursuing a DACA compromise for months.

White House chief of staff John Kelly and at times Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen have also been participating in those talks.

“Today we’ve taken a significant step forward with more than 80 senators voting to reopen government and with a commitment from the Republican leader to bring an immigration bill to the floor with ample opportunity for those with differing views to offer up substitutes to a bill”.

Republicans have appeared increasingly confident that Democrats would bear the brunt of criticism for the shutdown.

The White House answerphone message over the weekend blamed Democrats for the shutdown, saying: “Unfortunately, we can not answer your call today, because Congressional Democrats are holding government funding – including funding for our troops and other national security priorities – hostage to an unrelated immigration debate”.

Trump, who regularly disrupted negotiations in recent weeks, had been a relatively subdued player in the weekend debate. On Monday, he accused Democrats of prioritizing services and security for noncitizens over USA citizens.

Should Democrats blink first, he predicted, “The era of good feeling quickly will be replaced by anger and disappointment”. “That’s what they do”, Democratic Luis Gutierrez of IL said in an interview. More than three quarters of the public wants to see the numbers lower than they now are.

One other thing I’m sure Schumer is pondering this week is how this affects the #RESIST movement and their prospects against Trump. Short said the administration wants to “find a pathway for them” to stay in the U.S. Republicans argued that Democrats shuttered the government over “illegal immigration” in a bid to gin up enthusiasm among their base.

Politico first reported that Schumer had taken the wall funding off the negotiating table.

Experts said they could conceive of such a compromise passing the Senate, but the real obstacles are in the House of Representatives and the White House.

But if no progress is made on an immigration bill, Molly Reynolds of the Brookings Institution warned, “Democrats still have the ability to potentially force another shutdown over the issue”.

As lawmakers feuded, signs of the shutdown were evident at national parks and in some federal agencies.