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Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages by hannasanarion on Friday January 25, 2019 @12:05PM (#18999909)
That is the point in the process where we are stuck now, but not where the sticking began a month ago. Trump had a perfectly good budget on his desk, written by his allies and passed by Republicans, and it even had wall funding in it, and he vetoed it because it wasn't enough. Then the government shut down. Then the Democrats took control.
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Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages by leereeves on Friday January 25, 2019 @04:18PM (#19002563)
You posted a similar fiction more than once so I'll post the same correction in both places.

The House passed a budget bill that included wall funding.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/20/678602214/senate-approves-tem...

It never reached the President's desk because the Senate failed to pass a compatible budget bill when Democrats refused to include any funding for a wall.

> Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, of New York, pledged to continue the discussions, but said it was clear there are not enough votes to pass a spending measure that includes funding for a wall along the nation’s southern border.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/21/gove...

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Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages by hannasanarion on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:28PM (#19003203)
The house only passed that bill because Trump called Paul Ryan personally and said he would veto the bipartisan budget that was on the table and passed by the Senate. This is no fiction, it is Trump's shutdown
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Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages by leereeves on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:38PM (#19003287)
Everyone knows Trump's refusing to sign a budget without wall funding, that's no secret.

The part you left out is that the Democrats blocked a bill with wall funding, even before they took over the House. Trump never "had a perfectly good budget on his desk, written by his allies and passed by Republicans".

Both parties put this issue ahead of the continued operation of the government and both are responsible for the shutdown.

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Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages by jki275 on Friday January 25, 2019 @12:16PM (#19000029)
Trump hasn't vetoed anything.

Neither party has "had control" in the senate for years. It takes 60 votes in the senate to pass a budget, and neither party has had that.

The situation is far more complex than you're stating it.

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