Thread: Live Updates – Schumer Amnesty Shutdown: Washington on Edge as Cliff Approaches

Live Updates – Schumer Amnesty Shutdown: Washington on Edge as Cliff Approaches


Washington, D.C., is on edge this Friday as Senate Democrats barrel the United States of America toward a government shutdown at midnight.

The House of Representatives, on a bipartisan basis, passed a bill that keeps the government open with 230 votes–and now its fate rests in the hands of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his Senate Democratic conference, who would be solely responsible for a government shutdown if it happens. The Senate overwhelmingly on Thursday evening voted for a motion to proceed onto the bill, but now the funding measure needs 60 Senators to vote for it to eventually pass. Since only 47 Republicans are definitely yea votes, that means Republicans need at least 13 Senate Democrats to vote to fund the government.



The Democrats are pushing for this shutdown because they are hellbent on getting amnesty for a significant population of illegal aliens who were recipients of the unlawful Barack Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive amnesty program. The White House and congressional Republicans have been more than willing to offer a deal and proposal to handle this problem, but the Democrats have been unwilling to give up chain migration, the visa lottery, and funding for President Trump’s planned border wall.
Breitbart News will bring live updates here as the country barrels over the shutdown cliff.



UPDATE 12:05 P.M.
Senate President Pro Tempore Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is blasting the politicians in Washington for their failures here.

.@SenOrrinHatch: "This is the greatest country in the world, but we do have some really stupid people representing it from time to time." pic.twitter.com/HcAQI6VKuS
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 19, 2018

UPDATE 12:03 P.M.
On the Senate floor moments ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Senate Democrats would “own” any shutdown “craziness” that happens as a result of their unwillingness to vote for a bipartisan bill that contains nothing they oppose.


UPDATE 12:00 P.M.
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) demonstrate their true allegiances with this made-for-MSNBC television moment:

.@DickDurbin just called @LindseyGrahamSC on his cell while Graham was being interviewed live on @MSNBC by @GarrettHaake
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) January 19, 2018

When Dick Durbin calls in the middle of your interview….
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) January 19, 2018

Meanwhile, Graham is bashing White House aide Stephen Miller–and undercutting President Trump and the Republican Party on this matter.

Just interviews @LindseyGrahamSC – says up to POTUS to decide what he wants in an immigration deal & stick with it. He won’t vote for 30 day CR. Dinged @TomCottonAR as “Steve King of the Senate.” Stay tuned to @MSNBC
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) January 19, 2018

“The Stephen Miller approach to immigration has no viability.”
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) January 19, 2018

UPDATE 11:56 A.M.
CNN is reporting, citing a government official, that President Trump has canceled his planned trip to Florida this weekend as a government shutdown is looming. Meanwhile, CNN also reports, members of the House of Representatives are being told to stay in Washington for the time being rather than leave as planned for the weekend scheduled recess.


UPDATE 11:51 A.M.
Our senior White House correspondent for Breitbart News Charlie Spiering files this update from Mulvaney’s and Short’s White House briefing room appearance:

“OMB is preparing for what we’re calling a Schumer Shutdown,” OMB Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters at the White House. “It still surprises me and I’ve been through some of these before, that the Democrats in the Senate are opposing a bill that they don’t oppose.”

Mulvaney ridiculed reporters during a briefing for suggesting that Republicans would be held accountable for a government shutdown just because they controlled all three branches of the federal government.

“I have to laugh when people say that … you know any as well as anybody it takes 60 votes in the senate to pass appropriations bill. You know that,” he said.
Mulvaney said that members of the military, the border patrol, wildfire fighters, post office, TSA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the national parks would still go to work, but that they would not be paid, if the government did shut down.

He also said that President Donald Trump would continue to work to prevent a shutdown.
“There’s no way you can lay this at the feet of the President of the United States; he is actively working to make a deal,” he said.

UPDATE 11:48 A.M.
Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, is desperately spinning away as her party jeopardizes its midterm election chances with a Schumer Shutdown. She is now claiming that Republicans only want to head to Davos:

Pelosi says House is adjourning to go to Davos. pic.twitter.com/e5R5kgFfNN
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) January 19, 2018

But last night she accused everyone who voted for the bill of eating dog feces:

NASTY NANCY: Pelosi Compares GOP Debt Deal with EATING DOG FECES
https://t.co/E8zuKqgS7z
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) January 18, 2018

Wordsmithing. https://t.co/SJOmRCLGRY
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 19, 2018

Interestingly, Pelosi–by accusing those who support the House-passed Continuing Resolution that would keep the government open of eating canine fecal matter–is attacking six of her own House Democrats who voted for the legislation.


The six Democrats who joined most Republicans in supporting the bill that passed the House with 230 votes are now under attack by Pelosi:

Updated figure. 6 Hse Dems votes yes on interim spending bill. Dems didn't put up any yeas on the board until the GOPers hit 220. Dem yeas: Costa Carbajal Gonzalez Peterson Gottheimer Cuellar
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 19, 2018

So, Schumer and his Senate Democrat conference face an interesting choice: Stand with bipartisan legislation that passed the House to keep the government open, and their constituents, or stand with special interests in Washington against the voters of their own states.


UPDATE 11:41 A.M.
President Trump is calling out Senate Democrats–particularly Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)–for their hypocrisy on this matter.

“Shutting down the government is a very serious thing. People die, accidents happen. I don’t know how I would vote right now on a CR, OK?”
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif)https://t.co/7xP3CBnv5j
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 19, 2018

UPDATE 11:40 A.M.
OMB Director Mick Mulvaney and White House official Marc Short addressed the media from the White House briefing room.

OMB Director Mick Mulvaney:

"The president is actively working right now to try to prevent a shutdown. I will contend to you that is dramatically different from what President Obama was doing it 2013…It is absolutely my belief that President Obama wanted a shutdown in 2013." pic.twitter.com/Euvxsx85RN
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) January 19, 2018

"There's no reason you have to deal with DACA this week," Mick Mulvaney says https://t.co/lCJsliOyLR pic.twitter.com/FHe0iTCTXx
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 19, 2018

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney:
"We don't want this. We do not want a shutdown, but if Mr. Schumer insists on it he is in a position to force this on the American people." pic.twitter.com/z8JkPhaydi
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) January 19, 2018

In his comments to the press, particularly in an exchange with CNN’s Jim Acosta, Mulvaney made it very clear that Schumer and Senate Democrats have the votes to prevent a government shutdown from happening. If the Senate Democrats vote for the House-passed bill, which contains nothing they oppose, they will be able to prevent Schumer’s shutdown from happening.




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