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Originally Posted by pip08456
What about the 8.9 million children on chips? That funding stopped yesterday.
Where does NK come into it?
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There is funding for it until March, because it had previously been given a 6 month extension - this could have been passed as a stand alone bill at any time, just like DACA, which was stopped by an Executive Order in September.
Anyway, as Trump previously stated on Fox and Friends
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“Well, if you say who gets fired it always has to be the top,” Trump said. “I mean, problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top and the president’s the leader. And he’s got to get everybody in a room and he’s got to lead.”
He said that further down in history, “when they talk about the government shutdown, they’re going to be talking about the president of the United States, who the president was at that time.”
“They’re not going to be talking about who was the head of the House, the head the Senate, who’s running things in Washington,” Trump said.
“So I really think the pressure is on the president,” he added.
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Originally Posted by Mick
That makes absolutely no sense. North Korea doesn’t do democracy or votes on anything of any kind, there is no parliamentary democracy in North Korea. It’s one order from above, pure Dictatorship from Kim Jong Un.
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There was actually no opposition to anything in the bill, it passed in the House but the Senate Democrats, took advantage of the fact that it needed 60 votes to pass. Democrats wanted DACA protections, which is a non budgetary issue.
If this was a majority ruling, Republicans could have passed this, they did have some Democrat support, about 3 or 4 Democrat Senators, including the new Alabama Dem, Doug Jones breaking ranks with Hardline Democrats who oppose everything.
It’s a serious Dysfuction of Government.
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4 Republicans also voted against it, and John McCain didn’t vote.
Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), Rand Paul (KY), Mike Lee (UT), and Jeff Flake (AZ).