The house gave Trump his wall money

Nancy Pelosi said it wouldn't happen and she has been proved wrong.

House approves spending bill with $5.7B for border wall

The House of Representatives Thursday approved a bill that would fund most of the federal government through early February -- and provides $5.7 billion for President Trump's long-promised border wall, increasing the chances of a partial government shutdown later this week.

Eight Republicans joined all 177 voting Democrats to oppose the measure, which passed 217-185. 

The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is certain to fall short of the 60 votes needed for passage since the chamber's 49 Democrats are against funding the wall. 

That, in turn, makes it more likely that parts of the federal government, including nine of 15 Cabinet-level departments and dozens of agencies, will cease operations at midnight Friday.

The vote came hours after Trump told House GOP leaders that he would not enact a Senate-passed package that does not provide money for the barrier.

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, whose leaders had pushed the hardest for Trump to stand his ground on the wall issue, said in a statement: 

"Republicans in Congress have continually told the American people that we would fight for wall funding, and today the House of Representatives took its first step toward fulfilling that promise. 

"The Senate must follow our lead. It’s time we do what we said and work with President Trump and the American people to secure our borders."

Trump congratulated Republican House members in a tweet late Thursday, saying he was "so proud of you all."

We are the hostages of a fuckhead leader and his fuckhead party, since a government shutdown hurts us, the people the government serves and protects.

The right-wing loonies who support this see government as mostly the enemy and see a shutdown as hurting it, the enemy.

Fortunately, that is still not the view of a majority of our nitwit fellow countrymen.

I think.

House Republicans last night did as expected by me and by Trump, if not by Nancy Pelosi, and passed the hot potato - money for the wall - to the Democrats in the senate.

Trump's joyful shutdown looms.

Trump Warns of ‘Very Long Shutdown’ Over Wall Funding Dispute

Liar Trump is already throwing the blame for what will be all his own doing on the Democrats.

“The Democrats, whose votes we need in the Senate, will probably vote against Border Security and the Wall even though they know it is DESPERATELY NEEDED,” Trump said in a Friday morning Twitter post. 

“If the Dems vote no, there will be a shutdown that will last for a very long time. People don’t want Open Borders and Crime!”

Notice he did not write "If the Dems vote no I will joyfully shut down the government for months in a positively historic tantrum. Yay!"

He wrote "there will be a shutdown," as if it somehow flowed as a consequence of their refusal to give him his way rather than his own choice to punish the nation and smash things in a stupid, childish rage.

The president’s comments sought to preemptively shift blame to the minority party if a funding lapse occurs at midnight, even though Trump has said he’d be proud to shut down the government. 

The president on Thursday scuttled an apparent deal to fund the government through Feb. 8 when he suddenly said he’d reject it. 

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday his party won’t fund the wall, which Trump pledged Mexico would pay for, and said the new Democratic House would pass a bill reopening the government without wall funds on Jan. 3 if need be.

And will Trump refuse to sign that?

Trump also urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to permanently change the Senate’s rules to allow spending bills to pass with 51 votes rather than the current 60 votes, in order to make Democratic support unnecessary.

Republicans control 51 seats in the chamber.

Will the senate Democrats cave?

Trump's recent tweet: "The Democrats now own the shutdown!"