Mulvaney says Trump OK with second shutdown over border spat

[Swordsmyth]

President Donald Trump is prepared to shut down the government again or declare a national emergency if Congress won't give him the border wall money he wants, the White House said Sunday.The president's standoff with Democrats on Capitol Hill is far from over and the clock is ticking — the spending bill Trump signed on Friday funds the government agencies that had been shut down only until Feb. 15.
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told CBS' "Face the Nation" that Trump's goal is to work with Congress.
"What he wants to do is fix this the way that things are supposed to get fixed with our government which is through legislation," Mulvaney said.
Mulvaney said the president didn't want another shutdown, but he would do it if necessary.
"Keep in mind he's willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border," he said.


Mulvaney told "Fox News Sunday" that Trump agreed to temporarily end the shutdown because some Democrats have stepped forward, publicly and privately, to say they agree with Trump's plan to better secure the border. Mulvaney said they told Trump they couldn't split with Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, and work with the White House if the government remained closed.
"Everybody wants to look at this and say the president lost," Mulvaney said. "We're still in the middle of negotiations."

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-trump-ok-second-shutdown-over-border-153211342--politics.html



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[oyarde]

I let Mick know it is good to just pull the plug on it .

[RonZeplin]

President Trump will keep trying until he gets his Bill of Love amnesty for illegal alien invaders.

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[Swordsmyth]

President Trump will keep trying until he gets his Bill of Love amnesty for illegal alien invaders.

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That isn't going to happen.

[eleganz]

I let Mick know it is good to just pull the plug on it .

He already knows.

[RonZeplin]

That isn't going to happen.

Amnesty is baked into the cake by the Reconquista Trump Administration. The 2nd GOP amnesty is as good as done. It's happening. :100:

Head of Koch-affiliated group praises Kushner after immigration reform talks :flashinglight: (https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/426956-koch-network-group-praises-meeting)

The president of the Libre Initiative, on Friday, praised his meeting with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner (https://thehill.com/people/jared-kushner) on immigration and President Trump (https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump)'s proposed southern border wall as "constructive" and "productive."

"It was very constructive, productive. We felt Jared was an honest broker," Daniel Garza told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on "Rising."

The Libre Initiative is a conservative, Latino non-profit that is affiliated with the Koch Network.

The White House hosted the Libre Initiative, along with other Latino organizations including the League of United Latin American Citizens, and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, to discuss immigration reform, in hopes a broader deal could help end the partial government shutdown which is now in its second month.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/426956-koch-network-group-praises-meeting

[Swordsmyth]

Amnesty is baked into the cake by the Reconquista Trump Administration. The 2nd GOP amnesty is as good as done. It's happening. :100:

Head of Koch-affiliated group praises Kushner after immigration reform talks :flashinglight: (https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/426956-koch-network-group-praises-meeting)

The president of the Libre Initiative, on Friday, praised his meeting with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner (https://thehill.com/people/jared-kushner) on immigration and President Trump (https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump)'s proposed southern border wall as "constructive" and "productive."

"It was very constructive, productive. We felt Jared was an honest broker," Daniel Garza told Hill.TV's Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on "Rising."

The Libre Initiative is a conservative, Latino non-profit that is affiliated with the Koch Network.

The White House hosted the Libre Initiative, along with other Latino organizations including the League of United Latin American Citizens, and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, to discuss immigration reform, in hopes a broader deal could help end the partial government shutdown which is now in its second month.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/426956-koch-network-group-praises-meeting
In a move that should surprise precisely no one, the Koch political network has informed donors that they will not support President Donald Trump — or any other candidate — in the 2020 presidential elections. While the network still expects to be active in down-ticket races for the Senate and House of Representatives, they will not weigh in on the presidential race. The organization also chose not to back Trump in 2016.
Koch network spokesman James Davis said the network is planning to make “significant investment to support policy champions in Senate, House and state races, build broad-based policy coalitions and to launch a major new initiative to fight poverty in America.”
“This is where we can make the biggest difference for millions of Americans,” Davis concluded.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) probably wasn’t expecting much Koch Brothers’ support in the next presidential election anyway. In August, they sent a letter to donors critical of the Koch organization after Charles Koch suggested that the network might begin to support Democrats (https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/29/koch-democrats-funding-747501). “Some groups who claim to support conservatives forgo their commitment when they decide their business interests are more important than those of the country or Party. This is unacceptable.” The same letter claimed that the GOP had “been prepared for this for years.”
In a January 2 email to donors, the Koch network laid out its policy priorities for 2019, many of which sound as if they were written by Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Among those priorities are income inequality, education initiatives, overhauling the criminal-justice system, and searching for a more permanent answer for undocumented immigrants who came here as children, known colloquially as “Dreamers.”

Trump and the Kochs have been at odds for some time now. At a meeting of donors last summer, some senior Koch network officials criticized what they called a “tremendous lack of leadership” in the Trump administration, further saying that “the divisiveness of this White House is causing long-term damage.”
President Trump responded on Twitter calling the Koch network “highly overrated” and “a total joke.”
“I never sought their support because I don’t need their money or their bad ideas,” Trump announced last July. “They love my Tax and Regulation cuts, Judicial picks and more. I made them richer. Their network is highly overrated. I have beaten them at every turn.”
Even with the animosity between them, Trump and the Koch network have been able to partner on several issues since Trump took the White House, among them tax-cuts, criminal-justice reform, and judicial nominees. During the government shutdown, when the president proposed a temporary amnesty for the so-called Dreamers, the Koch network supported the move, calling it “an important first step toward a real deal.”
But, at best, Trump and the Koch network enjoy a type of “love-hate” relationship. And it’s more hate than love. Trump has called the network “a total joke in real Republican circles.” While the White House maintains ties to the Koch network on issues such as tax cuts and immigration, there is little love lost between the president and the Kochs.
In a July tweet (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1024236805477097472?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweet embed|twterm^1024236805477097472&ref_url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/426902-koch-network-will-not-back-trump-for-reelection-report), the President attacked the Kochs, saying, “the globalist Koch brothers, who have become a total joke in Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade. I never sought their support because I don’t need their money or bad ideas.”

More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/31310-koch-network-won-t-back-trump-in-2020

[RonZeplin]

In a July tweet (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1024236805477097472?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweet embed|twterm^1024236805477097472&ref_url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/426902-koch-network-will-not-back-trump-for-reelection-report), the President attacked the Kochs, saying, “the globalist Koch brothers, who have become a total joke in Republican circles, are against Strong Borders and Powerful Trade. I never sought their support because I don’t need their money or bad ideas.”

More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/31310-koch-network-won-t-back-trump-in-2020

Take your gaze away from the Koch Brothers Potemkin Village, Kubaki Theater for a moment. The love between the Koch Bros, Nancy Pelosi and President Trump is the kind that will never die.

Can the Koch Network and Jared Kushner Come Up with a Big Immigration Reform Deal?
(https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/can-the-koch-network-and-jared-kushner-come-up-with-a-big-immigration-reform-deal/)
Indian Wells, California — This morning, the Koch Seminar Network – more often referred to as “the Koch network” or “the shadowy Koch brothers” by gravely-voiced attack ad announcers – kick off their three-day winter meeting with the government at least temporarily reopened but the landscape in Washington deeply unsettled.

Thursday, Daniel Garza, the president of one of the Koch network’s affiliate groups called the Libre Initiative, met at the White House with officials in the administration to discuss a larger deal on immigration reform. Libre Institute president Daniel Garza told HillTv hosts (https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/426956-koch-network-group-praises-meeting) the meeting, which included leaders of other Latino groups, was “very constructive, productive. We felt Jared [Kushner] was an honest broker.”

Kushner has proven the network’s most valuable negotiating partner in the White House, playing a key role in the criminal justice reform legislation passed late last year. Ideas in that legislation, particularly anti-recidivism programs in federal prisoners, were the centerpiece of last year’s winter meeting.

But two of the open questions as the Koch donors gather at the luxury resort outside Palm Springs are just how much can get done in Washington with divided government and the jockeying for position in 2020 starting already, and just what kind of a deal President Trump is willing to accept. Last year Brian Hooks, president of the Charles Koch Foundation and Charles Koch Institute, applauded the administration’s (https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/01/koch-brothers-network-faces-midterms-year-two-trump-administration/) proposal of “legal certainty” for Dreamers, and indicated the network hoped the administration could go a step further for the Dreamers: “A path to citizenship is enormous incentive to continue to contribute to this country.” This year, the network is expected to push for a permanent solution to the Dreamers’s current legal status.

Politics makes strange bedfellows; this will put the Koch network on the same side as many Democratic lawmakers who have decried their allegedly sinister influence for many years. Earlier this month, Congressional Democrats rejected the administration’s offer of three years of legislative relief for about 700,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipients in exchange for $5.7 billion in steel barriers. Democrats appear unwilling to accept a temporary reprieve for the Dreamers in exchange for a permanent structure on the border.

[Swordsmyth]

President Donald Trump expressed skepticism on Sunday that U.S. lawmakers seeking to avoid another government shutdown could reach a deal on border security that he would accept, as he renewed his vow to build a wall on the southern border with Mexico.In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump said chances were low that Congress could craft an agreement and avoid another closure of part of the U.S. government in three weeks' time, when funding will expire.
"I personally think it's less than 50-50, but you have a lot of very good people on that board," the president said, referring to the committee of lawmakers appointed to work out a compromise on border security funding.
Another shutdown, Trump told the Wall Street Journal, was "certainly an option."
The president has also said he might declare a national emergency in order to build his border wall. Democrats would likely challenge that in court.
"Does anybody really think I won’t build the WALL? Done more in first two years than any President!" Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday evening.


In his interview with the Wall Street Journal, Trump also sounded doubtful about a possible deal involving both wall money and a broader overhaul of U.S. immigration laws.
"I doubt it," he said, when asked if he would agree to citizenship for a group of immigrants known as "Dreamers," who were brought to the United States illegally as children - in exchange for border wall funding.
"That’s a separate subject to be taken up at a separate time," Trump said.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-doubts-lawmakers-reach-acceptable-border-security-deal-023554716--sector.html