Trump Sows Chaos With New Demands As Government Shutdown Looms

[Arkansas Granny]

President Trump torched Republican leaders’ plans to avoid a government shutdown on Thursday morning with a new demand that funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program not be included in any government funding bill, increasing the chances of a government shutdown in less than 48 hours.

GOP leaders had planned to include a six-year extension of funding for the CHIP program as a way to pressure moderate Democrats to vote for a one-month extension of government funding as they scramble for enough votes to avoid a shutdown.
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“I’m not sure what the President means,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) said on Fox News Thursday morning when asked about the President’s new stance — before making the case that CHIP funds should remain in the bill in spite of Trump’s new position.

“What this would do though is it would reauthorize the CHIP program for, I believe, five years. So it’s not just a 30-day extension. But Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy have to figure a way to cobble together the 218 votes. Apparently, they feel like adding this will help them get to that 218 votes,” he said.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/as-government-shutdown-looms-trump-sows-further-chaos-with-new-demands

It seems that all he does is blunder blindly into negotiations without knowing what is going on. What a deal maker he's turned out to be.

[Fred Sanders]

1. Unstable idiot is negotiating by Twitter. Waiting for Foxxx instructions. What could go wrong!

It is a 6 year extension just like you demanded, not 30 day, moron.

[gratuitous]

2. Reauthorize CHIP for 10 years, save $6 billion

But it looks like President Shithole Genius is more interested in the drama than in the lives of Americans. If there was only some way that idea could be shortened down to tweet-length and picked up by the popular media.