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cynatnite

(31,011 posts)
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:11 PM May 2018

Repub senator begs tRump to not shut the govt down before midterms...

Senate Republicans didn’t put too many questions to President Donald Trump when he joined them for lunch on Tuesday, but the party’s most vulnerable incumbent did make one big ask: Please, Nevada Sen. Dean Heller pleaded, don’t shut down the government over funding for a border wall before the midterm elections.

Picking that fight during an election season would hurt Republicans at the ballot box, Heller told Trump, according to an attendee and two people briefed on the meeting. Though Heller prefaced his request by heaping praise on the president, Trump was noncommittal. “We’ll see what happens,” he told the group.

Heller, who confirmed he asked Trump not to shut down the government, was speaking for Republican lawmakers who fear that the president’s desire to follow through on one of his signature campaign promises could undermine their attempt to maintain control of the upper chamber. While Trump held campaign rallies with a raucous audience pushing him to “build the wall” at the U.S. border with Mexico, many Senate Republicans want to avoid a government shutdown at all costs — at least between now and the November elections.

Government funding runs out on Sept. 30, and Trump is laser-focused on getting his wall money in the next fiscal year, telling senators on Twitter not to take their usual August recess unless the border is secured.


Sen. Heller to Trump: Don’t shut government down before the midterms/

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Repub senator begs tRump to not shut the govt down before midterms... (Original Post) cynatnite May 2018 OP
Oh hey there, trumpy boy! GO AHEAD AND SHUT DOWN THE GOV'T! CaliforniaPeggy May 2018 #1
So Trump wants to shut the government down... RockRaven May 2018 #2
I wonder if he also does not want to spend more time in his district too. People applegrove May 2018 #3
Doesn't Trump have some scurrilous playground nickname for Heller? dawg day May 2018 #4

RockRaven

(14,782 posts)
2. So Trump wants to shut the government down...
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:23 PM
May 2018

and McConnell wants to keep the Senate open...

and Dirty Dean is potential collateral damage for both.

applegrove

(118,018 posts)
3. I wonder if he also does not want to spend more time in his district too. People
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:23 PM
May 2018

may demand more town halls and that could lead to questions about health care and inequality and Russia.

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
4. Doesn't Trump have some scurrilous playground nickname for Heller?
Wed May 16, 2018, 10:23 PM
May 2018

Dirty Dean or something?

Those GOPers sat and listened to him brag for 45 minutes. They aren't just culpable-- they are almost unbelievably servile. They have no pride... or shame.

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