President Donald Trump's plan to end the shutdown by peeling off moderate lawmakers from the opposing party who represent districts he won fell apart on Tuesday, as not one of them accepted an offer to lunch.
Trump invited legislators he believed he could woo to the White House for talks — and targeted their party leaders — in an attempt to divide the Democratic Party.
The plot didn't work. A White House statement chastising Democrats for refusing to come to the lunch table to discuss border security revealed that only Republican lawmakers would come to the meeting.
'Today, the President offered both Democrats and Republicans the chance to meet for lunch at the White House. Unfortunately, no Democrats will attend,' press secretary Sarah Sanders said. 'The President looks forward to having a working lunch with House Republicans to solve the border crisis and reopen the government.'
Trump invited Democrats he believes he can woo to the White House for talks, and targeted Pelosi in a Tuesday morning tweet
Sanders slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in the statement that included the names of nine Republicans who'd be dining with Trump.
'As Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi refuse to negotiate, President Donald J. Trump and his team are working hard to find solutions to solve the humanitarian and national security crisis at the border and reopen the government,' she said.
She said Trump would be hawking a proposal at the working luncheon to that 'includes additional technology at ports of entry, allows minors from Central America to seek asylum in their home country, and physical barriers between ports of entry made of steel instead of concrete.'
'It’s time for the Democrats to come to the table and make a deal,' Trump's spokeswoman asserted.
This morning, the president assailed Pelosi by name in a tweet, asking why the California congresswoman is getting paid when federal employees' who were required to stay on the job while their divisions are shutdown are not.
Democratic legislators who control the lower chamber as of this month made Pelosi the House speaker, putting her in charge of negotiations with the president to reopen the federal government.
'Why is Nancy Pelosi getting paid when people who are working are not?' the president asked.
Senate Democrats have put their weight behind New York's Schumer, another longtime party leader. Trump referred to him in a Monday tweet by the derogatory nickname 'Cryin' Chuck' that he developed for the senator who represents him home state.
The two Democrats have released public statements in lockstep since the shutdown began, but Trump is trying to split them by preying on Pelosi's vulnerabilities within her own caucus.
President Donald Trump is targeting moderate Democrats in a new bid to end the shutdown by peeling off lawmakers from the opposing party who represent districts he won
Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have released public statements in lockstep since the shutdown began, but Trump is trying to split them by preying on Pelosi's vulnerabilities within her own caucus
She narrowly won her election this month for House speaker, as freshman representatives who believe the party needs fresh blood revolted.
Other Democrats who support Pelosi have signaled that they would be willing to break with her since then and give Trump the money he wants for a physical barrier along the southern border in order to end the longest government shutdown in history.
California Rep. Katie Hill acknowledged Saturday that the bitter battle between her party and the president over his 'wall' was a semantic one as she said she would be willing to vote in favor of funding a barrier.
'For many of us, there's not really doubt that some kind of physical barrier is necessary,' she told Fox News in a Saturday interview. 'I think the challenge is that we've gotten so hung up on the semantics, really on both sides. Gosh, I can't tell you how much I've come to hate the word "wall," and many of us have.'
Trump has tried to attack the problem from the angle of the semantic debate, telling Democrats they can call the barrier a fence, if they want to, to get over the hump and claim to constituents they did not fund a wall.
Hill's comments were the first sign that his tactics could be working, and the White House sought to capitalize on them this week with an invitation to rank-and-file Democrats to meet with Trump.
It could be his last stop before taking unprecedented action to divert military resources to the construction of his wall. He said Monday he'd prefer to work with Congress. But he has also declared repeatedly over the past 10 days that he was likely to use emergency powers if he comes to believe the impasse cannot be resolved through regular order.
Trump on Monday slapped down a proposal from Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key Republican confidant, to reopen the federal government for three weeks while he negotiates with congressional Democrats over funding for his long-promised border wall.
'That was a suggestion that Lindsey made, but I did reject it,' Trump told reporters as he left the snow-swept White House for a speech in New Orleans.
About one-quarter of the federal government's funding, and 800,000 workers' paychecks, has been on hold since December 21 in the longest-ever shutdown as the White House tangles with Pelosi and Schumer.
Trump has said he won't sign a budget that would reopen the government unless it includes $5.7 billion in new spending to complete portions of his border barrier.
'I'm not interested,' Trump said Monday of a temporary pause. 'I want to get it solved. I don't want to just delay it. I want to get it solved.'
A White House official told DailyMail.com on Monday that the president has 'zero confidence' Pelosi and Schumer would change their position if he were to sign a short-term spending bill, 'and that might just embolden them.'
The president hasn't taken his foot off the gas pedal, bashing Democrats for leaving Washington while government employees wait to find out when their paychecks will return.
'I’ve been here all weekend,' he groused. 'A lot of Democrats are in Puerto Rico, celebrating something, I don’t know. Maybe they’re celebrating the shutdown.'
He ridiculed Schumer as 'Cryin' Chuck in a tweet earlier in the day and said he had been 'waiting all weekend' amid an ongoing standoff in negotiations.
'Nancy and Cryin' Chuck can end the Shutdown in 15 minutes. At this point it has become their, and the Democrats, fault!' Trump said.
Weekend polling showed that more Americans blamed Trump than the Democrats for the partial shutdown that has TSA and border agents working without pay, but he says it's not his fault negotiations have stalled.
'I've been waiting all weekend. Democrats must get to work now. Border must be secured!' Trump wrote in a Monday missive.
President Donald Trump has rejected the idea of reopening the government for three weeks while negotiations continue over funding for his border wall
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a key Trump confidant, proposed the idea over the weekend as a good-faith gesture to bring Democrats back to the table
He didn't express any confidence that the shutdown's days are numbered, although he described Republicans as 'rock solid' and claimed of Democrats that 'many of them are calling and many of them are breaking.
'I don't know if we're close on a deal,' Trump told reporters. 'This should be the easiest deal that I've ever seen. We're talking about border security. Who could be against it?'
'We're talking about drugs pouring in, human traffickers tying up women, putting tape on their mouths, and pouring into our country. We can't have that. We can't have that. We have drugs, we have criminals, we have gangs. And the Democrats don't want to do anything about it.'
With Pelosi and Schumer standing in his way, a remaining option is for the president to declare a national emergency and use existing Defense Department funds, tasking the Army Corps of Engineers to serve as his border wall's general contractor.
Trump has resisted the temptation, and appeared no closer on Monday to taking that tempting off-ramp from the crisis.
'I'm not looking to call a national emergency. This is so simple, you shouldn't have to,' he said. 'Now, I have the absolute legal right to call it, but I'm not looking to do that.
Trump claimed that Democrats 'are stopping us, and they're stopping a lot of great people from getting paid.'
'All they have to do is say, "We want border security." That automatically means a wall or a barrier.'
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