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Washington careens toward govt shutdown

China Daily | Updated: 2018-12-19 07:56
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The US Capitol is seen on Monday, as the deadline for lawmakers to agree on a new spending deal to avert shutdown approaches. [SAUL LOEB/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE]

GOP waits on Trump with no deal to fund Mexican border wall on horizon

WASHINGTON-An intensifying spending standoff sent US lawmakers scrambling on Monday to avert a partial government shutdown, with Republican and Democratic leaders deadlocked over US President Donald Trump's demands for border wall funding.

As Washington barreled toward a shuttering of key federal agencies in just four days, the White House appeared dug in on Trump's call for Congress to budget $5 billion in 2019 to fund a wall on the US-Mexico border that he insists will check illegal immigration.

If no breakthrough is reached, the shutdown would occur over the Christmas holiday-when most lawmakers flee the US Capitol-leaving Washington red-faced at the end of the year.

The closure could potentially spill into early January, when the new Congress-including a Democratically controlled House of Representatives-is sworn in.

Lawmakers involved in funding negotiations suggested the first move would have to come from Trump's team.

"We'll see soon, but the clock's ticking away," Republican Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby told reporters.

Democrats are united in their opposition to Trump's ask, saying their intent is to vote for no more than $1.6 billion in border security funding as laid out in bipartisan Senate legislation earlier this month.

Trump launched a fresh attack on the opposition party and its offer of wall-less border security funding.

"Anytime you hear a Democrat saying that you can have good Boarder (sic) Security without a Wall, write them off as just another politician following the party line," he tweeted.

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller said on Sunday that building the wall remained a top priority and that Trump was "absolutely" prepared to shut down government to achieve that goal.

Last week, a defiant Trump said he would be "proud" to shutter the government over border security.

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer stressed there are not enough votes in Congress to pass wall funding, and that it would be up to Trump to repeal his demand.

"President Trump still doesn't have a plan to keep the government open. In fact, the only indication he has given is that he wants a government shutdown," Schumer said on the Senate floor.

Democrats have made two offers to Trump, Schumer said: pass a funding stopgap, known as a continuing resolution (or CR), for the unfunded agencies for the remainder of the fiscal year through September 2019, or fund most of the agencies and pass a CR for homeland security.

"His temper tantrum will get him a shutdown, but it will not get him a wall," Schumer said. "It's futile."

The window for action is narrow. The House is off until Wednesday evening, leaving very limited time before funding for the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and other agencies expires on Friday at midnight.

Some members of Congress have told US media they see little chance of reaching a compromise in the coming days and have advocated for a short-term stopgap spending bill that would punt the problem until January.

Complicating the stalemate, several of the 100-plus lawmakers who are either retiring at year's end or lost their seats in November's midterm elections, mainly Republicans, may not be fully motivated to return to Washington this week for a final federal spending vote.

"Many of them don't want to come back," Schumer noted.

Should a shutdown occur, it would be relatively limited, as Congress has already funded 75 percent of government operations through September.

But US citizens have little appetite for the standoff, and Trump would likely suffer if the government closed temporarily, polls show.

Forty-three percent of respondents said they would blame Trump and Republicans for a shutdown, compared to 24 percent blaming Democrats, according to a USA Today/Suffolk University Poll. Thirty percent would blame both equally.

AP/Reuters

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