{"id":390296,"date":"2018-12-23T22:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T21:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-chuck-schumer-says-republicans-must-abandon-wall-in-order-to-reopen-government\/"},"modified":"2018-12-23T22:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T21:28:43","slug":"prison-planet-com-chuck-schumer-says-republicans-must-abandon-wall-in-order-to-reopen-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-chuck-schumer-says-republicans-must-abandon-wall-in-order-to-reopen-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Chuck Schumer Says Republicans Must \u2018Abandon\u2019 Wall In Order To Reopen Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/12\/22\/schumer-abandon-wall-shutdown\/\"><strong>The Daily Caller <\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 23, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Republicans need to \u201cabandon\u201d border wall funding if they want the government to reopen, just less than 24 hours into the partial shutdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Schumer, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/12\/13\/schumer-pelosi-trump-border-wall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongly opposed<\/a> funding President Donald Trump\u2019s border wall, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadPergram\/status\/1076538389774696450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said\u00a0<\/a>this on the Senate floor Saturday afternoon as the federal government is officially in a partial shutdown after Senate Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/12\/22\/government-shutdown-now-what\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed<\/a> to receive enough votes to pass a short-term spending bill Friday that included funding for a border wall.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenSchumer<\/a>: \u201cPresident Trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall, plain and simple.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p5wVtGFMGv\">https:\/\/t.co\/p5wVtGFMGv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bxwHn9E5B6\">pic.twitter.com\/bxwHn9E5B6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNnewsroom\/status\/1076537255521443840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The New York senator also said Democrats are \u201copen to discussing any proposal as long as they do not include anything for the wall,\u201d showing Democrats are not willing to compromise on border wall funding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/12\/22\/schumer-abandon-wall-shutdown\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Sunday, December 23, 2018  at  9:37 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/chuck-schumer-says-republicans-must-abandon-wall-in-order-to-reopen-government.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/chuck-schumer-says-republicans-must-abandon-wall-in-order-to-reopen-government.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Caller December 23, 2018 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Republicans need to \u201cabandon\u201d border wall funding if they want the government to reopen, just less than 24 hours into the partial shutdown. Schumer, who has strongly opposed funding President Donald Trump\u2019s border wall, said\u00a0this on the Senate floor Saturday afternoon as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}