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<h6><span style="color: #999999;"><em><strong>&#8216;President Trump agrees to end government shutdown without wall funding, caving to Democratic demands&#8217;</strong></em></span></h6>
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Trump caved on border wall, agrees to open the government for just three weeks after 35-day shutdown</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Late Friday he signed a bill reopening federal govt, for three weeks &#8211; The House had unanimously passed a measure, sending the bill to Trump for his signature</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The president warned he&#8217;ll shut down govt again or declare a national emergency and build his &#8216;smart wall&#8217; without Congress if they don&#8217;t fund it within three weeks</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Trump spoke from the White House on Day 35 of the shutdown on Friday &#8211; same day travel snafus occurred after air traffic control issues snarled airports</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Negotiators made new progress after two funding bills were defeated Thursday, allowing Trump to address &#8216;my fellow Americans&#8217; from the Rose Garden </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>There&#8217;s no additional funding for Trump&#8217;s $5.7 billion border wall, but bipartisan negotiators can keep talking about border security</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The announcement drew immediate blowback from conservative commentators and media</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Senate Minority Leader Schumer [D-NY], said he hopes Trump &#8216;has learned his lesson&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
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<div><strong><img src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Donald-Trump-announces-end-of-federal-shutdown.jpg?zoom=1.25&;ssl=1&;w=900" alt="Donald Trump announces end of federal shutdown" width="580" height="350" />President Donald Trump announced a deal to end the 35-day government shutdown. The deal will reopen the government for three weeks, with a threat to shut down the govt again if Congress fails to grant funds for his border wall</strong></div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">President Donald Trump Friday reversed himself announcing that negotiators had reached a deal to end the 35-day government shutdown, in a deal that does not include funding for his southern border wall.<br />
Trump told the nation a plan had been reached to reopen the government for three weeks, and said negotiators would use that time for talks on a wall – an offer from minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that he walked away from over a month ago after making funding for the border wall a condition for reopening the government.<br />
The House under the leadership of Speaker nancy Pelosi has unanimously passed the measure, sending the bill to President Trump for his signature.<br />
The president signed the bill in line with the optimistic prediction of Democratic leaders that Trump would sign a bill immediately Friday to reopen government and start the process of paying 800,000 furloughed and unpaid federal workers.<br />
In a cautionary tone senate Minority Leader, Sen. Charles Schumer [D-NY], said he hoped Trump had “learned his lesson.”<br />
“No one should ever underestimate the speaker, as Donald Trump has learned,” Schumer said.<br />
&#8216;I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government,&#8217; Trump said at the Rose Garden after being applauded by his cabinet members and his White House staff when he approached the podium for remarks.<br />
The deal includes no funding for the wall beyond existing authorities for repair of existing structures.<br />
The wall-free temporary spending package that will release the 800,000 furloughed workers from their unpaid limbo, an option that Democrats have asked for ever since the government ran out of cash on Dec. 22.<br />
Brandishing what he called a &#8216;very powerful alternative&#8217; that he has, – a threat of invoking emergency powers if he failed to secure the funding the next few weeks, Trump said &#8216;hopefully&#8217; he won&#8217;t have to fall back to such measures.<br />
A bipartisan committee of lawmakers he said, would meet to discuss border security needs.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nancy-Pelosi-4.jpg?zoom=1.25&;ssl=1&;w=900" alt="Nancy Pelosi 4" width="563" height="442" /> <strong>On the rise: Speaker Nancy Pelosi held firm to her stance that there would be no federal budget negotiations until govt reopened and furlough workers recalled</strong></p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Within hours the measure breezed through the Senate, marking at least a temporary end to a stalemate that disrupted the lives of thousands of federal employees and contractors, took a bite out of Trump&#8217;s approval ratings and that of congressional Republicans, and saw House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s low public ratings rise as she solidified support within her own caucus.<br />
After delivering extended remarks on what he considers the virtues of a wall and tough border security, the president issued yet another shutdown threat.<br />
&#8216;Let me be very clear. We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier,&#8217; Trump threatened.<br />
&#8216;If we don&#8217;t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on February 15 – again – or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution of the United States to address this emergency. We will have great security and I want to thank you all very much,&#8217; Trump said, ending his remarks by brandishing executive power.</p>
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<strong><img src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Chuck-Schumer-5.jpg?zoom=1.25&;ssl=1&;w=900" alt="Chuck Schumer-5" width="580" height="497" /> Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer &#8211; “No one should ever underestimate the speaker, as Donald Trump has learned.”</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Democratic leaders crowed over the embarrassing concession by the President, which proves a significant victory for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-Calif].<br />
“Hopefully now the President has learned his lesson,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer [D-NY] said. “No one should ever underestimate the speaker, as Donald Trump has learned.”<br />
The deal reportedly came to a head during a meeting between Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in his office Thursday evening.<br />
McConnell proposed a short-term funding bill with a down payment on the wall, but Schumer rejected that, suggesting Democrats would commit to the path that Trump announced — an agreement for the House and Senate to work out border security in a conference committee.<br />
McConnell [R-Ky] agreed to take that deal to the White House, and apparently convinced the President.</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img src="https://i2.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/mitch-mcconnell11.jpg?zoom=1.25&;ssl=1&;w=900" alt="mitch mcconnell1" width="570" height="309" /> <strong>Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell [R-Ky], and his Democratic counterpart Schumer hammered out the deal on Thursday</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The path forward, which breezed through Congress and was set to be signed by Trump late Friday, bankrolls the nine shuttered Cabinet departments and dozens of federal agencies through Feb. 15 on current spending levels.<br />
The government-reopening plan buys lawmakers three weeks to negotiate full fiscal year funding without continuing to hold the paychecks of federal workers hostage.<br />
But Trump explicitly threatened he will force the government to shut down again if Congress doesn’t include his demanded $5.7 billion in wall cash — a request Democrats have called a “nonstarter,” as they consider the very concept of a wall outdated and immoral.<br />
The President enters the new negotiations with significantly less clout.<br />
Recent polls show an overwhelming majority of Americans of all political stripes blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown, and Democrats — emboldened with control of the House — are unlikely to budge.<br />
“The American people do not like it when you throw a wrench into the lives of government workers over an unrelated political dispute,” Schumer said at a joint press conference with Pelosi.<br />
If Democrats refuse to give him barrier cash, Trump countered he will circumvent Congress and declare a national emergency to allocate taxpayer funds for the border project he used to promise Mexico would pay for.<br />
“We really have no choice but to build a powerful wall or steel barrier,” the President said. “If we don&#8217;t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on February 15th again, or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the Constitution.”<br />
Constitutional experts disagree with Trump’s expansive view of executive power and say a national emergency declaration would all but certainly be challenged and likely struck down in court, especially since the President is undermining his own sense of urgency by saying the declaration can be postponed.<br />
Trump, could have averted the shutdown altogether by signing a deal that was nearly identical to Friday’s and passed on bipartisan lines by the Senate before the government closed.<br />
But, after at first saying he would approve that measure, Trump refused it after being ridiculed by right-wing TV pundits.</p>
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<h6><img src="https://i1.wp.com/konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Donald-Trump-and-Roger-Stone-5.jpg?zoom=1.25&;ssl=1&;w=900" alt="Donald Trump and Roger Stone 5" width="580" height="385" /> <strong>President Trump announced the end of the shutdown from the Rose Garden on Friday</strong></h6>
<p>The immediate effect of the shutdown forced federal workers to go without pay and disrupting everything from FBI investigations to diplomatic programs, national parks, airport security and food stamps.<br />
The President said Friday he will see to it that furloughed workers who have gone without paychecks for 35 days will receive back pay as soon as possible.<br />
A congressional aide involved in shutdown negotiations said the timing of Trump’s announcement was not random.<br />
“He is concerned with the press optics of Roger Stone,” the aide told The News, referencing the longtime Trump adviser who was indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation Friday.<br />
The source added, “He believes getting the State of the Union back on mitigates the Stone headlines,” referencing Trump’s House address planned for Tuesday, which Pelosi previously said she wouldn’t host until the shutdown ended.<br />
Pelosi wouldn’t confirm whether the speech was back on, only telling reporters she’ll hash out “a mutually agreeable date.”<br />
The short-term spending agreement most closely resembles solutions offered by Democrats, but also includes assurances for a Homeland Security measure addressing some of Trump’s border concerns.<br />
With the government reopened, the House and Senate will appoint members from their funding committees to work out the long-term border measure.<br />
“It is sad that it took 35 days of inflicting pain and misery on Americans for President Trump and Republicans to come to their senses and agree to this solution, but it is better late than never,” said House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), whose committee will lead negotiations in the lower chamber.<br />
Democrats have been open to ramping up security at the border, and as recently as 2013 passed $46 billion in the Senate that would have doubled the size of the border patrol, built 350 miles of fencing, and deployed a whole raft of technological devices. Their issue lies in the wall, which they deem unnecessary.<br />
Republicans were able to breathe a sigh of relief after Trump’s retreat — at least for now.<br />
“I think everybody’s relieved that the government’s getting back open,” said Sen. James Lankford [R-Okla], “but I think everyone’s still a bit tenuous because we’ve got a sword of Damocles hanging over us three weeks from now.”</p>

‘Shutdown is over!’, President Trump agrees to end government shutdown without wall funding, caving to Democratic demands – Conservatives revolt
