axios: Schumer's plan to stop the wall - surest major defeat Dems can hand the President - Added bonus? Open borders surest way to erase hated White Gentile West. --tma

NBC

Chuck Schumer has concluded that denying President Trump his wall is perhaps the surest major defeat Democrats can hand the President in his first year.

Trump needs 60 Senate votes to fund construction of his "great wall" along the Southern border. Unlike healthcare or tax reform, Republicans can't use the budget process to ram the wall funding through Congress using only Republican votes.

• Schumer's thinking: There's nothing the Republicans would be willing to offer that could get Trump the eight Democratic Senators he needs to fund the wall. Mitch McConnell's only other option would be to invoke the nuclear option and bypass the filibuster. But Democratic appropriators are betting the Republican leader won't be willing to undermine such a fundamental Senate tradition just to pay for Trump's wall.
• The evolving plan, being discussed by Schumer's office and Senate appropriators ...
• https://www.axios.com/schumers-plan-to-stop-the-wall-2301564920.html