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| Topic | The Republicans just shot themselves in the foot. |
| sellerdore 01/18/18 11:55:19 PM #10: | https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rule-of-shutdown-politics-1516234911?mod=e2fb Notable: GOP leaders want to negotiate a two-year budget deal separate of negotiations over immigration. But Democrats are refusing, though the date when new work permits will no longer be issued to the so-called Dreamer immigrants is the first week of March. Democrats are refusing even though the tentative budget deal being hashed out behind the scenes would also give them a big increase in new domestic non-entitlement spending over two years. Republicans would get more defense spending. Such a deal will give more Republicans heartburn on the policy merits, but Democrats still wont accept. On Wednesday Democrats were even refusing to accept a short-time spending bill to fund the government for a month that includes reauthorization of the CHIP program for childrens health care. Democrats have spent weeks attacking Republicans for not reauthorizing CHIP, implying that children will be denied care. This is a program that was created in a bipartisan way, that has always been bipartisan, said Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio in December. Its ready to go. And if Republican leaders put it on the floor today, it would pass. There is no excuse for this delay that is hurting families. He was still tweeting about the urgency of passing CHIP on Tuesday. But now that Republicans are offering to reauthorize CHIP in return for almost nothing, the Brown Democrats refuse. --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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