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Trump just made an offer to Democrats to end the government shutdown.
Here’s what the President says his proposal includes:
President Trump, speaking at the White House, said he is outlining his plan to reopen the government, which has been partially shut down for more than four weeks.
“That is why I am here today to break the log jam and provide Congress with a path forward to end the government shutdown and solve the crisis on the southern border,” he said.
Trump called his plan a “common-sense compromise that both parties should embrace,” and said this is a chance for “real bipartisan immigration reform.”
President Trump is speaking from the White House. He is expected to propose extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and individuals with Temporary Protected Status in exchange for border wall funding.
Trump started his remarks by talking about the US’s “badly broken” immigration system.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is also a no on Trump’s proposal to end the government shutdown.
In a statement, Pelosi maintained Democrats’ stance that they would only negotiate once Trump reopens the government. She also called the initiatives in Trump’s offer “unacceptable.”
Read her full statement here.
President Trump is soon expected to propose extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in exchange for border wall funding.
Remember: This isn’t the first time that negotiations have involved a fix for DACA in exchange for border wall funding.
Democrats did have $25 billion on the table for border security in exchange for DACA. That deal included a 10-14 year path to citizenship for 1.8 million Dreamers, as well as permanent status and full protections afforded to all US citizens.
That deal could have included a wall, and Sen. Chuck Schumer privately promised as much as $20 billion to Trump in exchange for a path to citizenship for eligible immigrants.
The proposal had 54 votes in the Senate at the time, but Trump rejected that bipartisan proposal and threatened a veto.
Now, the White House is offering the BRIDGE Act. When it was originally proposed, the bill offered temporary protections while a long term sustainable deal was hatched. Democrats were much more open to a deal back then because they didn’t have a majority in the House.
The bottom line: Trump’s latest proposal isn’t nearly as good of a deal for either side. For Democrats, it’s a temporary solution for DACA and TPS recipients. For the President, it’s far less funding for the wall than what he turned down ($5.7 billion vs. $25 billion).
The President this afternoon hosted a naturalization ceremony in Oval Office.
The event was just before his 4 p.m. ET shutdown announcement, where he is expected to propose extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and individuals with Temporary Protected Status in exchange for border wall funding, a source confirms.
Trump and Vice President Mike Pence walked into the Oval Office and went down the line to shake hands with each person here for the naturalization ceremony.
The President gave a fist pump and applauded when Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen declared the group of men and women citizens.
Trump welcomed the ceremony participants as the newest members of the “great American family,” noting that this was the first swearing-in they’ve had in the Oval Office.
Sen. Dick Durbin, one of the key Democratic voices on immigration and the second-ranked senator in their caucus, released a statement on the President’s offer to end the shutdown in exchange for border wall funding and protections for DACA and TPS recipients.
Though Durbin is one of the original sponsors of the BRIDGE Act, which would have extended protections to Dreamers, Democrats have largely moved away from it, seeing it as a temporary solution.
Here’s Durbin’s full statement:
The proposal President Trump will present to Democrats this afternoon is expected to include the BRIDGE Act, originally proposed by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin.
Based on the bill introduced in the last Congress, it would grant protected status to eligible Dreamers for three years. It would also extend Temporary Protected Status to some immigrants, a measure not included in the BRIDGE Act.
Trump hasn’t been willing to address DACA in a possible border wall deal until this week, previously saying that the courts should sort it out first.
His latest move is an attempt to get Democrats to the negotiating table, but it might not work out for him. Here are some of the holes in his strategy:
Besides where Democrats stand on this, the biggest outstanding question right now is if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell actually puts this on the Senate floor on his own.
McConnell has said before that he wouldn’t put anything on the Senate floor unless Pelosi, Schumer and the President all signed off.
The immigration deal the President is expected to lay out will include the BRIDGE Act and a legal status extension for Temporary Protected Status holders, a senior administration officials. But all that could change.
The plan is modeled after proposals that Democrats have voted for in the past, in an attempt to get them back to the negotiating table.
The White House didn’t consult with Democrats on the proposal. Instead, it was based on conversations with Republicans and a belief that moderate rank and file Democrats are more willing to compromise than their leadership.
A Democratic Congressional aide forcefully rejected the proposal.
In his announcement this afternoon, President Trump is expected to propose extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and individuals with Temporary Protected Status in exchange for border wall funding, a source confirms.
The proposal would allow those immigrants to remain in the country. The Trump administration has previously rescinded protections of some TPS holders and announced plans to phase out the DACA program.
It’s unclear whether Democrats will be open to the proposal. They’ve so far refused to provide any funding for the border wall, insisting that Trump reopen the government first.
Trump will now speak from the White House at 4 p.m. ET.
President Donald Trump is planning to make Democrats an offer to end the government shutdown in a speech from the White House at 3 p.m., according to a senior administration official.
Trump is not expected to back down from his demand for a border wall, but the plan will seek to entice Democrats by offering other concessions, the official said.
White House officials are pessimistic that it will change much in stalled talks, because Democrats have previously refused to counter the White House’s proposal. Instead they have insisted that the President reopen the government, then engage in negotiations over border security.
The official said Trump is not expected to announce a decision on declaring a national emergency during Saturday’s speech, but nothing is definite until it’s announced by the President.
When asked today if he would be calling for a national emergency, Trump didn’t answer – only saying he would be making an “important statement” this afternoon.
“I’m going to be making a statement at 3 p.m.,” Trump said. “I will be making an important statement.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was noncommittal on the prospects of a State of the Union address days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to the President asking him to postpone the speech due to the government shutdown.
Here’s how Sanders put it:
Asked again whether there would be an address on Jan. 29, she wouldn’t say.
“We’ll certainly keep you posted on that front,” she said.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the possibility that furloughed workers could miss another paycheck is “absolutely” adding to the urgency of the government shutdown.
“Absolutely. That’s one of the key reasons that the President did not want Speaker Pelosi to leave the country,” Sanders said, referencing Trump’s letter denying Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi use of a military aircraft for a trip to Afghanistan.
She continued: “If she did it would all be guarantee the fact that the negotiations couldn’t take place over the weekend and federal workers, 800,000 federal workers wouldn’t receive their paychecks because she wasn’t here to help make a deal.”
Hundreds of thousands workers missed their first paychecks last week.
Sanders was also asked about some Democrats’ concerns that the shutdown could affect the upcoming Super Bowl in Atlanta.
“If the Democrats have those types of concerns, they should sit down at the table and negotiate with the President,” she said.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who emerged from a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said Democrats will continue bringing up spending bills next week.
On the Super Bowl being a national security event, Hoyer didn’t say whether he thinks it should be canceled or postponed
“These national security events, we need to have people at their sharpest, we need them concentrating on their job. Not on whether they can pay their mortgage payment, not on whether they can pay their car payment, not on whether they can put up food on their table.”
The Association of Assistant US Attorneys says the shutdown is affecting some criminal cases.
DNA testing is not being “timely performed” in some cases, and lack of track funds means some interviews of victims and witnesses aren’t happening, the association said in a statement.
The government website website Americans use to report stolen identity cases has been shuttered by the government shutdown.
An estimated nine million Americans have their identities stolen each year — That’s almost 25,000 identities stolen each day.
“Recovering from identity theft is easier with a plan,” says a government public service announcement video about the website. “You can generate the letters and forms that you need, track your progress and keep detailed records of people that you’ve talked to.”
IndentityTheft.gov now looks like this:
CNN attempted to contact the FTC for comment and received an automated reply, saying that their public affairs office was closed and there would be no response.
How it’s impacting customers: Julie Korts, 52, was shopping for the holidays on Dec. 19 in Plymouth, Minnesota. In the course of three minutes, she got a phone call, text and email notification.
“The phone then rang again, and I answered,” she told CNN. “It was Citicorp who handles my Home Depot credit card.”
No, she had not just bought $37 worth of stuff at a Pomona, California, Home Depot. But someone using her identity did.
Korts did what she was supposed to: She made a report with her local police department and contacted the Federal Trade Commission to file a report.
The FTC directed her to IndentityTheft.gov — the shuttered website — which usually guides victims through each step of the recovery process with a personalized recovery program.
“Every day I wonder how much of my life is ruined,” she says. “Every day I wake up and wonder who will call today…I just don’t know what to do next.”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, speaking about President Trump’s letter denying her congressional delegation a military plane to visit troops in Afghanistan, said Trump’s “outing” of the trip made it more dangerous.
She said she received a report from Afghanistan that said “the President outing our trip had made the scene on the ground much more dangerous.”
Pelosi said her team was ready to fly commercial — until the administration leaked news of the visit.
“We had the prerogative to travel commercially and we made plans to do that until the administration then leaked that we were traveling commercially and that endangers us.”
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Brenner Stiles, an Army veteran and furloughed federal worker, said the effects of the government shutdown are “psychologically traumatizing.”
“I’ve cried in my car. At least two times I’ve cried in my shower,” she told CNN as she explained how she has tried to hide her stress from her family.
Stiles, who is a mother of three, said she’s gone into “survival mode,” trying to make dinner last a few days and cutting down on any beverages other than tea and water.
Although she doesn’t believe the government has let her down, she said she believes federal workers are being mistreated.
“It just seems like federal employees are utilized as pawns in American politics,” she said.
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Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, issued a memo Friday officially banning all congressional delegations from using taxpayer-funded aircraft.
This comes one day after the White House denied a military plane for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Afghanistan to visit the troops.
Here’s what Vought wrote:
Here’s the full letter:
