3 hours ago - Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) on Saturday blasted President Trump as an unreliable negotiating partner, fuming that working with him is “like negotiating with Jell-O" after a fai.
3 hours ago - “What's even more frustrating than President Trump's intransigence is the way he seems amenable to these compromises before completely switching positions and backing off. Negotiating with President Trump is like negotiating with Jello. That's why this compromise will be called the Trump Shutdown.”.
7 mins ago - The White House traded salvos with Senate Democrats Saturday as both sides dug into opposing positions as the first day of the federal government shutdown...
“[Senate Minority Leader Chuck] Schumer is going to have to up his
game and become more honest with the president of the United States,”
Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said in an
afternoon press conference.
Mulvaney and White House legislative director Marc Short emphasized
that negotiations over immigration policy – including the fate of people
in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program who were brought
to the U.S. illegally as children – will remain stalled until Democrats
agree to reopen the government.
Short said that Trump is willing to sign a compromise resolution that
would restore federal funds for a three-week window, rather than the
four-week funding bill that the Senate rejected late Friday.
Mulvaney swiped at Schumer after the New York senator slammed Trump
for shifting positions during a meeting Friday that was a last-ditch
attempt to set a deal.
“Negotiating with President Trump is like negotiating with Jello,” Schumer said on Saturday afternoon.
Short laid the impasse at the Democrats’ feet.
“They are held captive by a small base in their party … who look at
all this administration has accomplished and say, ‘Because we can’t beat
‘em we’re gonna shut down the government,’” he said.
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