In 2019, the federal government will spend a whopping $4.407 trillion. Yet Congress and the president are shutting down the government in a dispute between the $1.3 billion the Democrats have approved for border security and the $5.7 billion the president is demanding -- precisely 0.0998 percent of the total federal budget. In Washington, that is considered a rounding error.
Worse, Democrats are doing it over a border wall strikingly similar to one that they almost unanimously supported just five years ago. While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., now says that "a wall is an immorality," back in 2013, she supported a bill that required the construction of 700 miles of border fencing. (Trump has called for a wall of "anywhere from 700 to 900 miles" long.) The bill negotiated by the Gang of Eight, which included current Democratic leaders Sens. Charles Schumer, N.Y., and Dick Durbin, Ill., declared that "not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary [of Homeland Security] shall establish ... the 'Southern Border Fencing Strategy,' to identify where 700 miles of fencing (including double-layer fencing) ... should be deployed along the Southern border."
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7 comments:
Democrats and liberal media are out of their minds could it be to many microwaves.This Russia stuff is crazy.
Dumbs dont have the ability to get smart about anything
A wall doesn't sleep at night...requires no pension, health care or paid vacations. Never takes a day off...sure we need surveillance and border agents but a barrier would make their job a lot easier. Just common sense.
Dems just can't get out of their own steamrolling way.
Democrat voters need to start thinking for themselves for once and stop being slaves to all democratic politicians
They really don't give one crap about you at all
Come on use your brain and think about yourself
THere is only ONE reason they oppose the wall: if you recall in every single one of his rallies, he got the greatest response from his campaign PROMISE to build the wall. The Dem's realize that this is the one thing they can run on in 2020 - a broken campaign promise. Plain and simple politics. It has nothing to do with money.
Pelosi and her gang are about envy; if their name can't be on it, nobody else's can.
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