As the Trump border wall partial Government shutdown drags on past a month?
Things are becoming apparent…
Donald Trump is stuck, with nowhere to go….
Why?
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer aren’t backing down from the ‘no wall money’ position…
More Republicans lawmakers ARE worried.…
(They should be…Polls show American’s are holding Trump responsible for the shutdown over a wall that they KNOW isn’t gonna get funding from lawmakers of both parties)
Thursday’s votes on President Trump’s and the Democrats’ plans to end the month-long government shutdown were never going to succeed. But they sure seem to have reduced Trump’s leverage.
Six Republican senators wound up voting for the Democrats’ plan to reopen the federal government through Feb. 8 without any wall funding. The measure still failed, falling eight votes shy of the required 60, but it got more votes (52-44) than Trump’s own plan (50-47). And that’s despite Republicans having six more senators.
(On the GOP plan, only West Virginia’s Joe Manchin III broke with the Democrats, while immigration hard-liners Mike Lee of Utah and Tom Cotton of Arkansas voted against the proposal.)
The Republicans who voted against the GOP plan were Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Susan Collins (Maine), Cory Gardner (Colo.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitt Romney (Utah).
While the measure failed, the Republican crossovers are significant. Shutdowns are about both sides holding the line — and that’s especially the case on the GOP side. Trump is demanding $5.7 billion in border wall funding or he won’t reopen the government, but six GOP senators just served notice that they won’t hold that line with him.
They’ll emphasize that they all voted for both bills, including the one with Trump’s wall funding, and that they just want to see the government open again. But their votes can’t help but present a somewhat divided and irresolute Republican front — in contrast to a very united Democratic one. They’re all saying they won’t make the same demand Trump is making. And when it comes to past shutdowns, this is generally how things begin to head toward a conclusion.
The vote, in the end, is the kind of vote that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) could potentially use to persuade Trump to bring the whole thing to an end….
Note….
Pelosi and Schumer ARE beating Donald Trump at his own game….
And it’s Trump’s fault for following the wrong crowd and hurting OUR governments employee’s that he has little regard for….