Pelosi’s Shutdown: Why Americans Increasingly
Blame Her for Failing to Reopen the Government, by Liberty Report, 1/24/19.
Did you know that we’re still in a partial government shutdown?
Of course you did. It’s hard to miss. This shutdown has broken records, and
it’s finally gone long enough that some of the doom and gloom sentiment could
start to come true. Federal workers are about to miss their second paycheck,
and if Congress can’t pass a budget soon, we’re going to start to see some
economic fallout from the shutdown.
While the left still tries to blame President Trump for the
shutdown, they have taken unequivocal ownership of this problem. The President
hasn’t even been given a budget to veto, and the House is now adamantly
refusing any level of compromise.
Pelosi’s Requests - To understand this shutdown, you have to take a look at both
sides. We can leave the blame game alone and resolve to know where the
contentions exist and why a compromise hasn’t yet been reached. For Pelosi and
her constituents, a federal budget will be unacceptable unless it meets a few
criteria.
Some of the points that have been most vocalized are specific
changes to immigration policy and procedure. The Democrats want protection for
anyone formally classified under DACA. They also want to extend protections for
people in America under the umbrella of Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
No, that’s not nearly all. They also want to expand resources
for processing asylum seekers and similarly displaced people crossing the
border. In addition, they want unilateral control over all discretionary
spending in the United States, and that includes a policy of spending $0 on
improving border security, even though the asylum processing would come from
the same budget they won’t increase.
Lastly, they want Trump’s metaphorical head on a silver platter.
At least, we hope it’s a metaphor.
Trump’s Offer - Knowing this, President Trump made an offer. He asked for $5.7
billion to expand border security. Among those dollars, nearly $1 billion is
earmarked specifically to expand personnel, facilities and other resources
dedicated to processing asylum and refugee cases. The goal of this money is to
ensure we can handle the cases without separating families or having lapses in
humanitarian aid during the process.
To compromise with the Democrats, Trump also offered a
three-year extension on both DACA and TPS protections. Other than that, he’s
actually left the rest of discretionary spending up to the Democrats in the House.
Calling this offer a compromise is an understatement. He’s given
them absolutely everything they want in exchange for $5 billion of increased
border security and his head on a platter. Signing this offer would be a huge
win for the left too.
The Devastating Refusal - The fact that the Democrats completely refused this offer
without making a counter is insane. It’s basically everything they wanted.
Sure, they could counter with a longer extension of protection for DACA and
TPS. They could even negotiate on the price tag of border security. They did
neither.
Instead, Nancy Pelosi fully rejected the offer before it was
even made. Assuming she knew what would be in it, she said, “It is unlikely
that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House,” and called the
offer a non-starter.
That’s obviously stupid. Extended DACA and TPS status would
easily pass the House. A billion dollars to protect asylum seekers also seems
like an easy win for the left. They only contention they have with anything in
the budget is that some of the $5 billion — that was requested by Border Patrol
by the way — will go towards physical barriers in area where there are none.
It’s a ridiculous, childish contention, and with this move, Nancy Pelosi has
taken full ownership of this shutdown.
She panders to the people and bemoans how hard the shutdown is
on federal workers. She tells us it’s crashing the economy and a danger to the
people. Then, when she gets an offer that has absolutely everything she wants,
she throws it completely out the window and refuses to even counter the offer.
She did all of it to make sure President Trump can’t say that he made progress
on his promise of a border wall. It’s downright heinous.
Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress are direct enemies of
the American people. Saying “gotcha” to Trump is more important to them than
anything. They will gladly watch us all suffer, die and burn if it means they
can score political points against Trump. There are no excuses. There are no
words.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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