- The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said there were 689,800 active DACA recipients as of Sept. 4, 2017.
- At its peak, about 850,000 individuals per day were furloughed.
I think it's pretty fair at this point to expect a Government shutdown of non-essential government agencies. It's just as fair to expect that a great deal of finger pointing will take place. It's also equally fair to expect that most of the finger pointing will be of the dishonest variety.
As it stands, the buzz is that the President is willing to "hunker down" for the long run. Most government agencies have holdover funding available, and other means to pay for their expenses. Meanwhile, the very concept that we should be upset that "non-essential" government functions will end, might be a oxymoron. Perhaps we should let this go on for a while, and figure out if we actually "need" these nonessential services.
The difference between what happened in 2013 and what would happen in 2018, is that the Obama administration refused to bend to any degree to keep anything open. They wanted the shut down, and they wanted to blame Republicans. Trump can (if he so chooses) use any number of means to fund the government for the foreseeable future. We'll see if he chooses to do so or if he lets the shut down play it's course.
What I wouldn't expect any times soon is for the President to simply cave in on the demand to fund DACA on a separate bill. It was always been designed to be part of the larger immigration reform. I am guessing if the question was asked objectively that most Americans want comprehensive reform, not patchwork.
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Chuck Schumer
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@SenSchumer
By keeping a government shutdown on the table @Senate_GOPs are playing with fire *
2:06 PM - Feb 3, 2011
Trump is right again.
Gee, I'm surprised.
The Schumer Shutdown
Burn it down for the illegals.
Don't Blink now Liberals.
HB, is your RN wife out of deaths danger?
Please do it.
Here’s the thing – most of Trump supporters aren’t takers – they’re makers. They’re the people the government flunkies come to with their palms up whenever some bureaucrat wants to spend a zillion bucks studying LGBT issues among Antarctic penguins or funding the NPR’s X-rated reenactments of the Nativity. How sad are Trump’s supporters going to be if the deal is, “We don’t hand over citizenship to a bunch of people who shouldn’t be here and everyone they’re related to down to their 29th cousin three times removed, and in return, we make the government stop spending money.”
There is literally no Trump voter who will say, “Why, that’s a terrible deal! If that happens, we don’t give amnesty and we don’t spend money!”
Not one.
To the extent that a shut-down hurts some of the government’s few useful employees, like the members of our military, I eagerly look forward to Chuck n’ Nancy and the other circus freaks who make up the Democrat Capitol Crew explaining to the American people why they chose to make our men and women in uniform suffer so the Democrats can import some new ballot stuffers. “Support the troops unless we need to screw them over so we can ship in foreigners to vote for future Maryland Senator Chelsea Manning” seems like a flawed message, which is why I heartily encourage the Dems to try it out.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/01/18/please-dont-shut-down-the-government-democrats-because-that-would-be-awful-not-n2435670
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