By: Kyle Drennen – newsbusters.org – January 15, 2018

On Monday, MSNBC was already working hard to make sure Republicans would be solely to blame for any possible government shutdown at the end of the week and proclaiming that Democrats “fed up” with the GOP were ready to “draw a line” on maintaining the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

In the 10 a.m. ET hour, correspondent Garrett Haake declared: “Democrats have been willing to go along with these short-term extensions of government funding over the last couple of months because they believed there was this good-faith effort going on to deal with this issue, the DACA issue, in a forthright manner.” He then accused President Trump of having “blown that up” with his profane comments about immigration.

Haake warned: “If Democrats don’t believe that there’s a good-faith effort going on, a number of them have said they will withhold their votes to fund the government.”

The reporter touted a soundbite from Democratic Delaware Senator Chris Coons explaining his party’s political strategy on the issue and “ laying out exactly where this goes”: “A majority of my caucus, myself included, we will not fund the government without a DACA deal. The challenge is to make it clear to the American people this is not just about immigration.”

Haake acknowledged that pushing that spin “will be the challenge” and even noted Republicans countering the narrative: “You’re already hearing it today from Republicans trying to say Democrats are willing to put the military in jeopardy, they’re willing to put federal workers in jeopardy, they’re willing to roll the dice on a government shutdown for what Republicans are saying is amnesty.”

However, even after admitting that Democrats would be the ones causing a shutdown, Haake still dutifully promoted liberal talking points:

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Source: MSNBC: Dems ‘Draw Line’ on DACA, GOP Will ‘Own’ Shutdown