Real Threats?
The question to ask is if these are idle threats or serious words? Will Democrats refusal to vote be enough to bend Trump?
“Trump must make good on his promise to sign a bill protecting Dreamers,” tweeted Sanders. “I won’t vote for any spending bill without a permanent DACA fix.”
Senator Tom Cotton said “we definitely ruled out putting any kind of DACA package on the omnibus bill, period end of story.”
It certainly seemed like the Democrats are serious about what they are saying. The budget deadline is December 8 2017.
The bill needs 8 votes from Democrats. If Trump is able to gain the trust of enough Democrats the threat is useless.
To accomplish this is another thing though. Trump had already made inroads with a couple Democrats.
Will he continue along that path or will he choose the easy way remains to be seen. The easy way is to give Democrats DACA.
But looking at Trump’s track record it is unlikely that he would budge. Until the deadline gets closer it is all speculation.
What is certain is something must be done if Government wants to get the spending bill approved.
