U.S. government shutdown looms amid immigration battle

“I’m not going to try to predict the future but we definitely want to get a deal done on the budget and we want a clean budget bill“. Cory Booker (D-NJ), telling reporters he won’t support any deal that leaves out DACA. The bill being considered would delay Obamacare taxes on medical devices and high-end health plans for two years and delay a tax on Obamacare insurers for one year.

“At what point are we going to have a plan on where we’re going to land or are we just going to hope February 16 is better than January 19 because it’s in a different month?” said Meadows, a western North Carolina Republican.

Potentially adding to Democratic reluctance? Democrats have threatened to withhold their votes because of the stalemate over immigration – a potential obstacle in the Senate, where 60 votes are needed. Joe Manchin, a red state Democrat from West Virginia, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Most aspects of a government shutdown won’t impact your daily life, especially if you live outside of Washington or aren’t employed by the federal government.

In a tweet Tuesday, Trump claimed that “Democrats want to shut down the Government over Amnesty for all and Border Security”.

Adding fuel to the fire of this year’s spending debacle is the need for Congress to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, and secure the fate of almost 700,000 undocumented immigrants.

That push ended abruptly Thursday when a bipartisan group of senators went to the White House with a deal that would have restored DACA and increased funding for border security, only to be met with a questions from Trump about why the United States should take immigrants from Africa and Haiti, which he referred to as “s–hole countries”, according to multiple reports based on interviews with attendees at the meeting, including Democratic Sen.

Immigration activists have been gearing up for this fight for months.

After Strange lost to Roy Moore, Trump switched his support to Moore. The administration has given agents leeway to detain and try to deport a wide range of people in the country illegally, from criminals to otherwise law-abiding residents with jobs and US -citizen children.

The bill does not include a solution to the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, meaning Republicans will likely have to pass the bill by themselves.

Xochitl Cossyleon, 24, a Detroit school teacher and DACA recipient who came to the US when she was 2, said the debate on DACA “is a true emotional roller coaster” for her and others who face possible deportation.

Trump also flatly rejected a bipartisan agreement to create a pathway to citizenship for the Dreamers, even though it also included other items he had demanded. They talk about DACA, but they don’t want to help.We are ready, willing and able to make a deal but they don’t want to.

Veteran lawmaker Hal Rogers said that, before a Tuesday night meeting of House Republicans where the funding plan was presented, he had been concerned about the possibility of a shutdown, but was less so afterward.

President Donald Trump yesterday aligned himself solidly with conservative Republicans on immigration, criticizing a proposed bipartisan deal as “horrible” on US border security and “very, very weak” on reforms for the legal immigration system.

“Latinos could blame Democrats as a whole if we lose part of our caucus on a vote that doesn’t secure DACA for the long term”, said Rocha.

They carried signs and chanted, “What do we want?”

Thirty-four seats in the Senate and all 435 seats in the House of Representatives will be contested in November’s midterm elections. “His biggest promise of the campaign trail was to crack down on illegal immigration and build a border wall”. As members emerged from leadership’s briefing Tuesday night, many rank-and-file members – from defense hawks to fiscal conservatives – seemed reluctant but ready to lend their support if they had to.

As the afternoon wore on and leaders surveyed GOP lawmakers, one member of the Republican Whip team told CNN that things were going in the right direction.

The new legislation would provide the young immigrants with permanent protection against expulsion and allow them a pathway to citizenship in as few as 10 years. That number will rise to 1,200 a day after March 5.