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Congress nears budget deal, Trump says he would 'love' a shutdown

By Richard Cowan and Steve Holland

 

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would welcome a federal government shutdown if Congress is not able to agree to changes in immigration law that he said would prevent criminals from entering the country. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would "love" to see another government shutdown as Republicans and Democrats in Congress worked to reach a budget deal that would prevent federal agencies from having to close their doors this week.

 

As lawmakers in Congress closed in on a bipartisan budget deal that could end months of budget uncertainty, Trump threatened to upend the discussions by insisting that any spending package would have to include changes to immigration laws - the very issue that led to a three-day shutdown last month.

 

"I'd love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of," he said at the White House.

 

The White House later clarified that it did not expect the budget deal to include specifics on immigration.

 

Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate say they are close to an agreement that could dramatically raise spending levels for both military and domestic programs and ensure that the government will keep operating when temporary spending expires on Thursday.

 

The deal could potentially put an end to the brinkmanship over spending that has periodically roiled Washington and that resulted in funds running out for the government in January.

 

"I'm optimistic that very soon we'll be able to reach an agreement," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters.

 

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said the agreement would include an increase for domestic programs like drug treatment and broadband infrastructure that Democrats have sought, as well as a military spending increase championed by Republicans.

 

"We're making real progress on a spending deal," he told reporters.

 

January's shutdown came about after Democrats insisted that any spending bill must also include protections for young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children, who are known as "Dreamers."

 

Democrats are not taking that approach this time around.

 

"Nobody wants another one but him," Schumer said.

 

Trump's fellow Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress, are also eager to keep spending and immigration separate.

 

"We don't need a government shutdown on this," Republican Representative Barbara Comstock told Trump at the White House.

 

The potential budget deal in the Senate could head off another round of the last-minute posturing that preceded last month's shutdown.

 

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives was set to vote on Tuesday evening on a stopgap spending bill that would fund much of the government through March 23 and fund the military through Sept. 30, the end of the federal fiscal year.

 

That measure is not likely to survive unscathed in the Senate, where Republicans cannot pass spending bills without some Democratic support.

 

McConnell and Schumer could incorporate their agreement on domestic and military spending into the stopgap measure, which then would have to win passage in the House.

 

Congress also faces another looming deadline, as the United States could have trouble paying its bills within weeks if lawmakers do not take the politically painful step of raising the debt ceiling.

 

The third-ranking House Republican, Representative Steve Scalise, said negotiations over the debt ceiling were being coupled with the Senate budget talks.

 

IMMIGRATION ISSUE

 

Lawmakers have been struggling to reach a deal on an immigration bill, despite broad public support for helping Dreamers - hundreds of thousands of young Latinos who were allowed to study and work without fear of deportation under a programme set up by Democratic former President Barack Obama.

 

Trump last year ordered those protection removed by March 5, though a federal court has blocked his administration from ending the programme.

 

Democrats and Republicans in Congress are trying to agree on bipartisan legislation that would protect Dreamers and boost border security. Schumer said the Senate could take up the issue next week.

 

Trump has said any immigration deal must also include changes to programs for legal immigration that would assess applicants on their skills, rather than their country of origin or ties to U.S. residents. Democrats oppose that idea.

 

(Additional reporting by Makini Brice, David Morgan and Amanda Becker; Writing by Andy Sullivan; Editing by Frances Kerry and Jonathan Oatis)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-02-07

[stevenl]

Of course he would love a shutdown, it appeals to his base that all those lawmakers are obstructing everything.

[Credo]

He is unable to provide even the most remedial leadership.   He is the first President I've known of who really wants his country to fail.   Talk about treasonous.

[Bluespunk]

Calls himself the great negotiator, yet throws a hissy fit every time he doesn’t get his way. 

 

Man’s a narcissistic idiot.  

Edited February 7, 2018 by Bluespunk

[jcsmith]

How much you want to bet that after the democrats don't cave to this $25 Billion wall insult, while people are losing health benefits and rich people are seeing massive tax cuts... Trump will blame the shutdown on "the dems" and people will harp that on here even though it's fairly obvious he wanted this from the get go.

[Benmart]

3 hours ago, Credo said:

He is unable to provide even the most remedial leadership.   He is the first President I've known of who really wants his country to fail.   Talk about treasonous.

Treason is decided by the courts, not by the peanut gallery.

[lannarebirth]

1 hour ago, Benmart said:

Treason is decided by the courts, not by the peanut gallery.

 

Treason has a very narrow definition. Accusations of treason by Republicans towards Democrats and vice versa have no basis in law when applied against that definition.

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-treason/2017/02/17/8b9eb3a8-f460-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.987fff261137

 

[farcanell]

1 hour ago, Benmart said:

Treason is decided by the courts, not by the peanut gallery.

Yup.... perhaps true, even if irrelevant, because the good ol constitution protects a persons right to call someone treasonous.... lol....even if it also allows a person so accused to sue the accuser for defamation.

 

so... credo.... are you worried about trumpets lawyers chasing you? ??????

[pegman]

I hope he gets his wish but Schumer is likely to bail him out again. People talk about Clinton being such a bad standard bearer but Chuck was just as bad a selection as Majority Leader.

[mtls2005]

So where's the budget money coming from for the big parade?

 

Trump’s ‘marching orders’ to the Pentagon: Plan a grand military parade

 

President Trump’s vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand military parade later this year showcasing the might of America’s armed forces.

 

Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting such a parade, but a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in the Pentagon’s tank — a room reserved for top-secret discussions — marked a tipping point, according to two officials briefed on the planning.

 

Surrounded by the military’s highest-ranking officials, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Trump’s seemingly abstract desire for a parade was suddenly heard as a presidential directive, the officials said.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-marching-orders-to-the-pentagon-plan-a-grand-military-parade/2018/02/06/9e19ca88-0b55-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.555276846441

[Credo]

12 hours ago, farcanell said:

Yup.... perhaps true, even if irrelevant, because the good ol constitution protects a persons right to call someone treasonous.... lol....even if it also allows a person so accused to sue the accuser for defamation.

 

so... credo.... are you worried about trumpets lawyers chasing you? ??????

Why would I worry....I didn't say that; I don't remember saying that....I haven't even met him, at least, I don't remember meeting him.   If I said that, I didn't mean it.    It's a FAKE post!

 

Nothing to see here....