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Originally Posted by MrWookie
"Republicans," as in GOP congresscritters, may not as a whole consider the wall important (note: it is certain that some of them do, but it is obvious that the Senate and House GOP leadership does not). But Trump considers it vitally important, so he might offer them something valuable, and the Dems should ask and accept. Fracturing the GOP base is a win.
The problem is the democrats are not negotiating against Trump and we already know trump agreeing to something and reneging is of little value and a hollow victory.
Trump is not really in a position to agree/authorize anything the democrats want, so it’s pretty much a waste of time to be doing it in the first place.
Opening the government is what Trump can agree to do that could actually happen. No deals, no strings, no compromises. Just open the government.
The GOP has two plus years of backtracking on Trump nonsense. There is no gotcha here.
Take the shutdown off the table and say congress alone is negotiating on a wall. It NEVER happens.