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The Republican Party is fractured over immigration, and its nominal leader, President Donald Trump, is sending mixed signals with offhand comments and unscheduled tweetstorms_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:46 PM UTCPublished: Jan 19, 2018 6:52 PM UTC The Republican Party is fractured over immigration, and its nominal leader, President Donald Trump, is sending mixed signals with offhand comments and unscheduled tweetstorms  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:46 PM UTCPublished: Jan 19, 2018 6:52 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5104004/jimmy-kimmel-trump-martin-luther-king/) has come up with a whole new method for illustrating why the [Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)](http://time.com/5061240/children-chip-health-insurance/) shouldn’t be used as a negotiating tool in negotiations to avert [a government shutdown](http://time.com/5109899/government-shutdown-explainer/?xid=homepage). During Thursday’s episode of _Live!_, the host enlisted a coffee barista to demonstrate his take on why attaching a program that provides coverage for nearly nine million low-income kids to the short-term government spending bill doesn’t make sense. In a segment dubbed “Barista Theatre,” Kimmel tried to order a cappuccino at a coffee cart only to be told that he couldn’t have his drink unless he also paid for a giant bag of horses–t. When Kimmel refused, the barista proceeded to flip over the cart and announce that he was shutting the entire establishment down. “The bottom line is if they want to fund CHIP, which they claim they do because they care about children, they could do that immediately,” Kimmel explained. “If they took a vote on CHIP alone, there would be no votes against it. But they want to use children’s health as leverage.” Watch the full clip below. ## Transcript [00:00] Real deadlines are occurring this Friday. And the real [00:03] deadlines that occur this Friday are our men and [00:05] women in uniform and children's health insurance in [00:08] many states that will run out of money. And so that is [00:10] why it is just unconscionable to me that they would [00:12] block funding for our military or cut off funding for [00:16] these states that really will use their funding for CHIP [00:19] by playing these political games and tying them to [00:21] unrelated issues. I feel that It makes no sense for [00:25] Democrats to try and bring us to a shutdown. To try [00:28] and cut off CHIP funding for the states that are running [00:30] out of money, like Minnesota, and Washington, and [00:33] Kentucky, and other states. 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