Tulsi Gabbard today: "Both sides...unwilling to come together..."

[Miles Archer]

70. Trump wants his $5.7 billion no matter what...that isn't "negotiating."

It's like going into a restaurant.

You see something on the menu and ask your server "what's in this?"

They tell you what's in it, and there is ONE ingredient that you CAN'T stomach, or maybe you're allergic to it.

So you ask the server if the chef can make the dish without that one ingredient, and the server responds "NO."

So you have the choice of ordering the dish and either simply not liking it, or perhaps having an allergic or life-threatening reaction like a peanut allergy, OR...you just don't order the dish.

And every dish Trump has served up has the $5.7 billion in it, and Democrats have done due diligence on the cost-effectiveness and usefulness of this particular "solution," and they KNOW it was a fake campaign promise made by Trump to woo the MAGAts. and in order for Democrats to do the jobs they were elected to do, they MUST say NO to anything that is a WASTE OF TAXPAYERS' money, and resources that could be better used elsewhere. And they HAVE voted for large sums of money...just not to be allocated to a "wall" or "fence" or "barrier."

It's all in the way that this mess is being framed. Trump's not budging on the $5.7 billion, and in his speech yesterday, HE REFERRED TO IT AS A "DOWN PAYMENT!" The "wall" or "fence" does NOT "cost" $5.7 billion. So he offers to temporarily restore programs HE KILLED with "executive orders" in exchange for the $5.7 billion, and that is NOT "compromise."

AND, the Democrats are smart enough to know, and have already said, that if they sign off on the $5.7 billion, he'll shut down the government again (or do something worse) when the next "down payment" is due.

So, the Democrats told their waiter / waitress "no thanks."

Sounds like the smartest move to make, given the circumstances.