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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 244495" data-attributes="member: 389">Because you are wrong in assuming he didn't need democrat votes.&nbsp; The Senate requires a super majority, eg. 60 votes to avoid the threat of a filibuster.&nbsp; The Republicans only had 51 members of the Senate, so he needed to drag along another 9 Dems. Not saying it couldn't have been done, but I think there was some push back from the Dems on it.- - - Updated - - -Note, in Trump's defense...he asked Mitch McConnel to change the rules of the Senate to allow funding for the wall to be passed with a bare majority.&nbsp; McConnel didn't like that approach because it was something the Dems did with Obamacare, they sometimes refer to this as the &quot;Nuclear Option&quot;.I hate that term, it makes me think we have idiots running the country when they compare something like a simple frigging vote to the destruction of an atomic bomb.&nbsp; Morons....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 244495, member: 389"] Because you are wrong in assuming he didn't need democrat votes. The Senate requires a super majority, eg. 60 votes to avoid the threat of a filibuster. The Republicans only had 51 members of the Senate, so he needed to drag along another 9 Dems. Not saying it couldn't have been done, but I think there was some push back from the Dems on it. [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] Note, in Trump's defense...he asked Mitch McConnel to change the rules of the Senate to allow funding for the wall to be passed with a bare majority. McConnel didn't like that approach because it was something the Dems did with Obamacare, they sometimes refer to this as the "Nuclear Option". I hate that term, it makes me think we have idiots running the country when they compare something like a simple frigging vote to the destruction of an atomic bomb. Morons.... [/QUOTE]

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