The partial government shutdown lingers from day to day with seemingly no solution in sight.
Here's the solution: Republican senators should propose a bill that includes at least part of the money for the wall - say half of the $5.7 billion President Trump wants - as well as a strong codification of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that exists today only because President Obama issued an executive order.
Both sides agree to the deal, appropriate money to reopen the government and agree to work on border security together.
The border wall is a tool to help control the flow of undocumented immigrants across the border, who attempt to come without submitting to due process or applying for visas.
Even Republicans who may have misgivings about DACA would be hard-pressed to reject a chance to get some wall funding.
Passing such a bill would put pressure on President Trump, as well as give him a positive way out of the current impasse.
It's unfortunate that the president, Republicans and Democrats need a self-serving reason to do what's right for the American people.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900051029/in-our-opinion-a-solution-to-end-the-shutdown-and-give-both-republicans-and-democrats-a-win.html
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-shutdown-20190117-story.html
Here's the solution: Republican senators should propose a bill that includes at least part of the money for the wall - say half of the $5.7 billion President Trump wants - as well as a strong codification of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that exists today only because President Obama issued an executive order.
Both sides agree to the deal, appropriate money to reopen the government and agree to work on border security together.
The border wall is a tool to help control the flow of undocumented immigrants across the border, who attempt to come without submitting to due process or applying for visas.
Even Republicans who may have misgivings about DACA would be hard-pressed to reject a chance to get some wall funding.
Passing such a bill would put pressure on President Trump, as well as give him a positive way out of the current impasse.
It's unfortunate that the president, Republicans and Democrats need a self-serving reason to do what's right for the American people.
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900051029/in-our-opinion-a-solution-to-end-the-shutdown-and-give-both-republicans-and-democrats-a-win.html
Schoolyard shutdown: Trump keeps stooping lower
- On the 26th day of the government shutdown, a spiteful President Trump canceled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Afghanistan in retaliation for Pelosi postponing the Jan.
- As pressure ratchets up on Trump, it must also fall on his partner in political crime, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has rejected out of hand nine House bills designed to open up different parts of the government.
- The petty tit-for-tat in search of the upper hand must not obscure the fact that Trump ground government gears to a halt in an attempt to force them to accept a border wall.
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-shutdown-20190117-story.html
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