House Republican Goes Off: GOP Waiting On Trump Tweets Is ‘What The F*ck Serving In Congress Has Come To’
With conservatives in a full-on revolt over a deal to avoid a government shutdown because it doesn’t include funding for President Donald Trump’s big beautiful border wall, the president hinted via Twitter Thursday morning that he would veto the short-term spending bill that passed the Senate Wednesday evening.
When I begrudgingly signed the Omnibus Bill, I was promised the Wall and Border Security by leadership. Would be done by end of year (NOW). It didn’t happen! We foolishly fight for Border Security for other countries – but not for our beloved U.S.A. Not good!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2018
Besides sending out that tweet, the president also called retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan just before his final House Leadership press conference, which was scheduled to take place prior to the House voting on the resolution. Ryan ended up canceling the presser following the call and the House was thrown into chaos as GOP leaders discussed the possibility of passing another funding bill for the wall.
MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt was on Capitol Hill while all of this was going down and provided a quote from a nameless House Republican who explained that they were waiting on Trump to send out a tweet indicating whether he’d sign or not.
On the House floor, leaders scrambling to see if they can pass $5 billion in wall funding as Republicans say they want President Trump to tweet before they say “yes.”
“That’s what the fuck serving in Congress has come to,” one GOP member of Congress tells me.
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) December 20, 2018
“That’s what the fuck serving in Congress has come to,” the GOP member told Hunt.
She further noted that the House may be moving towards just tossing out a bill that won’t pass just to prove to the president that it will go nowhere.
Path today might be putting $5 billion in wall funding on the House floor, likely going down — to prove it can’t pass
Then possibly proceed to an clean CR vote? #mess
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) December 20, 2018
Talking Points Memo correspondent Cameron Joseph also quoted Rep. Ryan Costello (R-PA), a Trump critic who did not seek re-election this year. Costello told Joseph that “if Trump tweets something we’ll do it” but until then “we’re all just twisting in the wind.”
.@RyanCostello on the CR: "If Trump tweets something then we'll do it… we're all just twisting in the wind."
— Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) December 20, 2018
At noon on Thursday, Trump scheduled a meeting with House Republican leaders Ryan and Kevin McCarthy and House Freedom Caucus leaders Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows to see about trying to add wall funding in the spending bill.
I am now told that the following people are going to the White House:
Paul Ryan
Kevin McCarthy
Mark Meadows
Jim Jordan— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 20, 2018
Trump has been on the receiving end of conservative backlash over the funding bill as when the continuing resolution expires, Democrats will be in charge of the House and the possibility of adding wall funding will drop to zero.
