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Why did Trump stop the compromise talks?

CriticalThought

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The Senate GOP were working on a compromise plan and it appeared to be gaining steam and Trump rejected the approach. Why? If he wanted the Dems to look like the intransigent ones, then that was absolutely the last thing he should have done.
 
The Senate GOP were working on a compromise plan and it appeared to be gaining steam and Trump rejected the approach. Why? If he wanted the Dems to look like the intransigent ones, then that was absolutely the last thing he should have done.

Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter were about to tell his base to abandon him.
 
Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter were about to tell his base to abandon him.

I am not talking about before the shut down. I am talking about yesterday.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/10/republican-senators-government-shutdown-1096118

President Donald Trump has rejected a plan proposed by a bloc of Senate Republicans who had hoped to break an impasse over the government shutdown, leaving Congress and the White House with little obvious way out of the extended battle over Trump's border wall.
 
If the talks don’t include at least a 5b allocation for his wall, he isn’t budging.

This is about his ego and his promises...and if he gives in, he loses on both

I am afraid the democrats have ran into a proverbial wall.....
 
If the talks don’t include at least a 5b allocation for his wall, he isn’t budging.

This is about his ego and his promises...and if he gives in, he loses on both

I am afraid the democrats have ran into a proverbial wall.....

What I heard was they were thinking funding for the wall for path for citizenship for some of the DACA kids. There is over 80% support for giving DACA kids a path to citizenship. If even that was too much of a bargaining chip for Trump then I think he has completely given up on the optics that it is the Dems who refuse to compromise.
 
The Senate GOP were working on a compromise plan and it appeared to be gaining steam and Trump rejected the approach. Why? If he wanted the Dems to look like the intransigent ones, then that was absolutely the last thing he should have done.

The fact that he no longer controls all levers of government has yet to penetrate Trumps skull.
 
I am afraid the democrats have ran into a proverbial wall.....

Democrats are running a coordinated message about ports of entry to make the wall a loser talking point. The one hitting a wall is Trump. Who once said to go through them :)
 
The fact that he no longer controls all levers of government has yet to penetrate Trumps skull.

He barely controls what happens a 100 yards from the Oval, he never controlled "all levers of the government".
 
I am not talking about before the shut down. I am talking about yesterday.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/10/republican-senators-government-shutdown-1096118

So...what WAS the compromise plan? The article you link doesn't give any info about it. They just say that Trump refused it and everyone is disappointed.

Tell you what...give me the details of this "compromise" and I'm sure I can accurately guess exactly why Trump told them to take a hike.
 
If the talks don’t include at least a 5b allocation for his wall, he isn’t budging.

This is about his ego and his promises...and if he gives in, he loses on both

I am afraid the democrats have ran into a proverbial wall.....

It won't just be Democrats but the GOP who are working to open the government as well. As this continues and Federal employees become more vocal (it's already starting), the optics will look worse for Trump if he chooses to be obstinate.
 
So...what WAS the compromise plan? The article you link doesn't give any info about it. They just say that Trump refused it and everyone is disappointed.

Tell you what...give me the details of this "compromise" and I'm sure I can accurately guess exactly why Trump told them to take a hike.

https://kdvr.com/2018/12/30/graham-...se-with-democrats-on-border-security-funding/

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters that President Donald Trump is open to a compromise with Democrats that includes $5 billion for border security “in areas that make sense” in exchange for legislative changes to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program and immigrants with temporary protected status, or TPS.

I guess he was not as open minded as Graham had hoped.
 
It is not very clear what the compromise was, but buried in the story was something like "the president rejected their idea to allow congressional committees to sort out his border wall request while the government reopened." Security but not the wall.

I am taking that to mean Senate Republicans were about to cave and open up government without wall funding, and that would politically undermine Trump's temper tantrum government shutdown going on 20 days and getting us ever close to breaking the record.

With all the conversation yesterday on Democrats potentially looking to exchange DACA for the wall the pressure to make a deal is on the incline.

But that is not what Trump wants, and odds are the shutdown will continue...
 
The fact he waited until just after Republicans lost control of the House to make this stand suggests this is theatrics for his base rather than being truly desperate for a wall.

As it stands though, whichever side is perceived as giving in over this shutdown will find they have significantly less weight in negotiations over the next ~18 months. Some Republicans are starting to realize the wall probably isn't going to happen but they don't really have to go down with the ship.....
 
Because the two democrats are not going to budge and, frankly their arguments are just a joke. I don’t see any point in conversation with those two fools because obviously they believe in the non citizens because they change our country. Compromise conversation are not going anywhere. They want to open the government before they have the conversation but yet if they do it then it’s the same thing as now. Oh president is being a child and whatever. Apparently Pelosi and Schumer knows what is good while they have security at home and and the United States Capitol is heavy secured
 
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