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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,201 posts)
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 05:49 PM Dec 2017

McConnell: There will be no government shutdown

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that there will not be a government shutdown over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, arguing “there is no crisis.”

“Look, there’s not going to be a government shutdown. It’s just not going to happen,” McConnell told ABC’s “This Week.” 

McConnell argued that since President Trump has given Congress until March to work on a fix to DACA, there is no emergency that would require a shutdown.

“I don’t think the Democrats would be very smart to say ‘we want to shut down the government over a non-emergency that we can address any time between now and March,’ ” McConnell said. “That’s a very untenable position.”

“I can’t imagine that they want to shut down the government over an issue that’s not an emergency,” he added.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/362984-mcconnell-there-will-be-no-government-shutdown?rnd=1512313016

The Democrats shut down Congress? Your party controls Congress Yertle.

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McConnell: There will be no government shutdown (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2017 OP
Democrats must fight with everything at their disposal dalton99a Dec 2017 #1
Denial is not just a river in Africa Gothmog Dec 2017 #2
lol...as if McConnel can force democrats to vote or not to filibuster beachbum bob Dec 2017 #3
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
3. lol...as if McConnel can force democrats to vote or not to filibuster
Sun Dec 3, 2017, 07:09 PM
Dec 2017

spending a couple weeks on the senate floor slamming trump and republicans is fitting, so if the govt shutsdown, so be it. Mcconnel nor trump can force democrats to kneel before them

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