Dotard IS IN A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN & WHITE HOUSE FALLING APART AGAIN! For 2019 New Year! And he got fucked for everyone including his own dogs!
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Trump vs. military: Mattis jabs president in farewell message to Pentagon employees
Published time: 31 Dec, 2018 20:38
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Outgoing US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis used his last day on the job to take a dig at his soon-to-be-former boss, telling Pentagon employees to “hold fast” in tough times and quoting Abraham Lincoln for some extra motivation.
Mattis had planned to leave the administration in February, giving the White House enough time to find a replacement. Аfter
angering Trump with his criticism of the decision to start pulling US troops out of Syria – a decision which
enraged conservatives and liberals alike– Mattis was effectively fired two months early.
In his farewell letter, Mattis told Pentagon employees that the Department of Defense was
“at its best when the times are most difficult” and encouraged them to
“keep the faith in our country and hold fast, alongside our allies, aligned against our foes.”
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Really driving home the point, Mattis also quoted an 1865 telegram that President Lincoln sent to the commander of Union forces, General Ulysses S. Grant, in the final weeks of the Civil War:
“Let nothing which is transpiring, change, hinder, or delay your military movements, or plans.”
Widely interpreted as a thinly-veiled jab at Trump, the letter is just the latest in an ongoing battle between the president and the military that has prompted
much speculation that there is a
“deep state” or military faction within Trump’s administration doing what it can to sabotage his plans and neutralize what many regard as his less interventionist mindset.
On Monday, Trump launched his own blistering attack on
"some failed Generals" for criticizing his decision to leave Syria and to potentially scale back operations in Afghanistan, saying they were
"unable to do the job before I arrived" and reminding people that he’d campaigned against
“the NEVER ENDING WARS” the US had become entangled in.
While both Mattis his former chief of staff John Kelly, who also left the administration just before the new year, are retired generals, the odds are Trump was actually referring to retired Army General Stanley McChrystal.
The former commander of US forces in Afghanista, fired by Barack Obama in 2010, criticized Trump for the Syria decision this week, saying the move would cause
"greater instability" and a mindset that the Middle East could
“run itself” without US intervention was not realistic. McChrystal also said he
“doesn’t think that Trump tells the truth,” and agreed when asked if the US president is
“immoral.”
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While Trump has confirmed his desire to remove US troops from Syria, there has been more confusion about the possible scale-back of US operations in Afghanistan, where the military has been bogged down for 17 years. While media reports suggested Trump is ready and willing to wind down US involvement there, too, a White House
official said that he had
“not made a determination” on the issue.
Trump has picked Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, to serve as acting defense secretary, until a decision can be made about who will replace Mattis.
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The
United States federal government shutdown of January 2018 began at midnight
EST on Saturday, January 20, 2018, and ended on the evening of Monday, January 22. The
shutdown began after a failure to pass legislation to fund government operations and agencies. This stemmed from disputes over the extension of status of persons affected by the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy, and therefore whether those covered under the program should face deportation. There was also a dispute over whether funding should be allocated towards building a
Mexico–United States border wall, a keystone policy during
Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Contents
Background
The
U.S. government's 2018 fiscal year began on October 1, 2017. Because regular
appropriations bills to fund the government had not been passed, Congress funded the government through a series of three temporary
continuing resolutions. These extended government funding respectively through December 8, 2017,
[1][2] December 22, 2017, and January 19, 2018.
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The negotiations on a permanent appropriations bill had become entangled with disputes over the
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy. DACA is a
U.S. immigration policy that allowed some individuals who entered the country as
minors, and had either entered or remained in the country illegally, to receive a renewable two-year period of
deferred action from deportation and to be eligible for a
work permit. As of 2017, approximately 800,000 individuals were enrolled in the program created by DACA. The policy was established by the
Obama Administration through executive action in June 2012 in response to Congress' failure to pass the
DREAM Act. The
Trump Administration rescinded DACA in September 2017, setting an expiration date of March 2018, with the stated preference that Congress adopt a legislative solution.
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CR number Date CR passed Expiration date (duration) Remarks 1 October 1, 2017 December 9, 2017 (c. 10 weeks) 2 December 9, 2017 December 22, 2017 (3 weeks) 3 December 22, 2017 January 19, 2018 (4 weeks) Resulted in 69-hour shutdown 4 January 22, 2018 February 8, 2018 (c. 2 weeks) Resulted in 9 hour funding lapse 5 February 9, 2018 March 23, 2018 (c. 6 weeks)
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January 1, 2019 / 2:41 AM / Updated 6 minutes ago
Factbox: Departments hit by partial U.S. government shutdown
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(Reuters) - Shuttered U.S. government agencies remained closed on Monday as Democrats in the House of Representatives readied legislation intended to reopen the government that would not meet President Donald Trump’s demand for $5 billion to fund a border wall.
FILE PHOTO: A sign declares the National Archive is closed due to a partial federal government shutdown in Washington, U.S., December 22, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo
Funding for about a quarter of the federal government came to an end on Dec. 22, with Trump and Democrats far apart on a solution.
On Thursday, after they take the majority in the House of Representatives, Democrats intend to vote on a two-part package to end the shutdown. Its prospects in the Senate and with Trump were uncertain.
The shutdown has not affected most of the government, including the Department of Defense and the Postal Service, which have secure funding. Still, some 800,000 employees from the Departments of Homeland Security, Transportation and others have been furloughed or are working without pay.
Here is what is happening at key federal agencies.
HOMELAND SECURITY
The department that oversees Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard and the Secret Service is affected. But most employees are deemed “essential,” so they are working without pay until a funding bill is passed.
Of 245,000 department employees, nearly 213,000 have been deemed essential, according to the department’s contingency plan.
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Most of this department’s 7,500 employees are deemed “non-essential,” with only about 340 working. Nearly 1,000 others may be called in for specific tasks, for which they will not be paid until a funding bill is passed.
Public housing authorities and tribally designated housing entities are not part of the federal government and so are not required to shut down. But the federal government provides some of their funding, so they may need to reduce or change operating hours.
The department, which oversees some housing loan and low-income housing payment programs, warned in its contingency plan that “a protracted shutdown could see a decline in home sales, reversing the trend toward a strengthening market that we’ve been experiencing.”
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis and Census Bureau are not publishing economic data, including key figures on gross domestic product, inflation, personal income, spending, trade and new home sales, during the shutdown.
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
The agency that oversees the federal workforce has offered advice to workers on how to deal with landlords, mortgage lenders and other creditors. It includes sample letters with language explaining severe reductions in income due to the lack of federal funding for departments and agencies.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
The FCC, which regulates interstate communications, including radio and television broadcast and cable systems, said it will suspend most operations at midday on Thursday, if the shutdown has not ended by then. Work for “the protection of life and property” will continue. So will operations at the agency’s Office of Inspector General.
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COAST GUARD
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard were due to receive their final paychecks of the year on Monday. That paycheck will be their last until the government reopens.
FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was to resume issuing new flood insurance policies during the shutdown, reversing an earlier decision. The National Association of Realtors estimated an earlier decision to stop issuing new policies could have disrupted up to 40,000 home sales each month.
INTERIOR
The National Park Service, under the umbrella of the Interior Department, is operating with a skeleton staff. Under its contingency plan, some parks may be accessible, with others closed completely. The National Park Service is providing no visitor services such as restrooms, facility and road maintenance and trash collection.
TRANSPORTATION
Of the department’s 55,000 employees, 20,400 have been put on leave. Those do not include most of the Federal Aviation Administration, where 24,200 are working, or the Federal Highway Administration, where all 2,700 employees are funded through other sources.
Air traffic control, hazardous material safety inspections and accident investigations continue, but some rulemaking, inspections and audits have been paused.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
An estimated 1,100 of the office’s 1,800 employees are on leave. This includes most of the Office of Management and Budget, which helps implement budget and policy goals.
Reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh, James Dalgleish, David Gregorio and Dan Grebler
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December 31, 2018 / 6:03 AM / Updated 6 hours ago
Republican Senator Graham says Trump receptive to shutdown deal idea
David Lawder
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday he was optimistic that Republicans, Democrats and President Donald Trump could reach a deal to end a government shutdown that includes border wall funding and legal status for some illegal immigrants.
Graham, a Republican, told reporters after meeting Trump for lunch at the White House that Trump was receptive to Graham’s idea of a deal that might provide work permits to so-called Dreamers, people brought illegally to the United States as children, in exchange for money for physical border barriers.
“The president was upbeat, he was in a very good mood, and I think he’s receptive to making a deal,” Graham said, adding that Trump found the potential Dreamer concession “interesting.”
But the senator said there would never be a government spending deal that did not include money for a wall or other physical barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border. The wall was one of the central promises of Trump’s presidential campaign.
“I don’t see Democrats giving us more money unless they get something. So, the one thing we talked about is making deals,” Graham said.
“After lunch I’ve never been more encouraged that if we can get people talking we can find our way out of this mess and that would include around $5 billion for border security, slash wall, slash fencing whatever you want to call it in areas that make sense,” he added.
Trump later made clear on Twitter that he regarded a wall as necessary.
“President and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound. I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security,” Trump wrote. “The U.S. needs the same thing, slightly larger version!”
Earlier, on CNN’s “State of the Union” program, Graham floated the idea of giving Democrats a version of stalled legislation to protect Dreamers from deportation in exchange for wall funding.
The Trump administration in 2017 announced plans to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, begun under former President Barack Obama to shield Dreamers from deportation. But Trump’s DACA phase-out has been delayed by court rulings against it.
With the partial government shutdown in its ninth day on Sunday, some other lawmakers were less upbeat about prospects for a deal to restore spending authority.
Republican Senator Richard Shelby warned on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that negotiations were at an impasse and the shutdown “could last a long, long time.”
Democratic U.S. Representative Hakeem Jeffries said the country needed comprehensive immigration reform and border security.
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“We are not willing to pay $2.5 billion or $5 billion and wasting taxpayer dollars on a ransom note because Donald Trump decided that he was going to shut down the government and hold the American people hostage,” Jeffries said on ABC.
Democrats take control of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, following November’s congressional elections.
Reporting by Timothy Gardner and David Lawder; Additional reporting by Christopher Bing and Doina Chiacu; Writing by David Lawder; Editing by Phil Berlowitz and Peter Cooney
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