{"id":394838,"date":"2019-02-01T11:15:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T10:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pelosi-draws-line-in-the-sand-on-border-budget-ahead-of-potential-second-shutdown-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T11:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T10:15:12","slug":"pelosi-draws-line-in-the-sand-on-border-budget-ahead-of-potential-second-shutdown-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/pelosi-draws-line-in-the-sand-on-border-budget-ahead-of-potential-second-shutdown-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi draws line in the sand on border budget ahead of potential second shutdown \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared a pre-emptive victory in her first post-shutdown press conference, sticking to her \u2018not a dime\u2019 position on border wall funding despite the looming deadline.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWinning is good,\u201d<\/em> Pelosi quipped to a packed House, in a boast more characteristic of her Republican rival. Her victory might be short lived, however, as the leading House Democrat expressed hopes rather than guarantees that a second shutdown would be kept off the table.<\/p>\n

On a more practical note, Pelosi announced that a bi-partisan conference committee had been formed to look into compromises on hotly disputed budgeting issues. She emphasized that the committee would be independent and \u201cleft to its own devices\u201d<\/em> in crafting a border security budget proposal.<\/p>\n


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While the committee proposed thousands of new customs officers, imaging technology and repairs, there is still no compromise in sight on the question of the wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s not going to be any wall money in the legislation,<\/em>\u201d she bluntly added, before backpedaling somewhat with the vague admission that \u201csome new infrastructure<\/em>\u201d and more \u201cports of entry<\/em>\u201d in \u201ccertain localities\u201d<\/em> are still up for negotiation.<\/p>\n

She also called President Trump\u2019s proposal to offer DACA protections in exchange for wall funding a “non-starter.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Democrats, however, are not the only ones sticking to their guns. Trump fired back shortly after the conference saying: \u201cYou have so many people coming up from Tijuana Nancy Pelosi will be begging for a wall,\u201d<\/em> suggesting that the matter is far from decided.<\/p>\n

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Very sadly, Murder cases in Mexico in 2018 rose 33% from 2017, to 33,341. This is a big contributor to the Humanitarian Crisis taking place on our Southern Border and then spreading throughout our Country. Worse even than Afghanistan. Much caused by DRUGS. Wall is being built!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Pelosi\u2019s press conference was the first since the end of the 53-day government shutdown which began last December over disputes on funding a partial-wall along the Mexican border. Ironically, the shutdown itself ended up costing the government an estimated $11 billion dollars, which is nearly twice the $5.7 billion Trump wanted allocated for a wall in the first place.<\/p>\n

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