Senate Republicans head to White House amid stalemate on shutdown

[Dulcinea]

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the government shutdown enters its fourth week, Senate Republicans are headed to the White House on Tuesday — not for urgent talks on how to end it, but for a display of unity with President Donald Trump as they refuse to negotiate on any Democratic demands.

Senate Democrats, too, are confident in their strategy to keep voting against a House-passed bill that would reopen the government until Republicans, including Trump, engage them on extending health care subsidies that expire at the end of the year.

With both sides showing no signs of movement, it’s unclear how long the stalemate will last — even as hundreds of thousands of federal workers will miss another paycheck in the coming days and states are sounding warnings that key federal programs will soon lapse completely. And the meeting at the White House appears unlikely, for now, to lead to a bipartisan resolution as Senate Republicans are dug in and Trump has followed their lead.

https://apnews.com/article/shutdown-republicans-senate-trump-white-house-8cac539f2a553ced68bc9e0b32bc7b94

[Walleye]

1. They are all excited, they get to go to the big house and get approval by their master that's all they care about

[bucolic_frolic]

2. They will kill the filibuster. This is prime time for Group Think.

No Republican will dare oppose Hair Fuehrer in person. Done deal. Budget by Friday.

[dem4decades]

3. That would open the door to them being able to completely gut this country, if

They haven't already.

[MichMan]

6. Recalling lots of people here and many elected Democrats wanting to get rid of it last year

[PuraVidaDreamin]

4. Where the Don will remind some Senators of the Kompromat he holds over them.

The Epstein shit goes DEEP.

[MichMan]

5. Dems should keep it shutdown as long as necessary

Until the midterms if that's what it takes.