So what does everyone think, is Trump going to cave on the wall?
“So what does everyone think, is Trump going to cave on the wall?”
IMHO the wall will be built one way or another. Plenty of ways to fund the building of the wall.
It’s not because of Trump. It’s the republicans in Congress and I predict they will lose the Congress in 2018. Trump is doing everything to work with them but they are beyond help.
Help me understand why the Democrats have any say in this whatsoever. Doesn’t the GOP have all three branches of government? How can the Democrats shut anything down?
No idea, but I will say that the longer it takes to get it through Congress, the lower the chances are it will be done at all.
President Trump has his maximum momentum in the first six months of his Presidency, in terms of public support, political capital, and political will. After that, too many things crop up as distractions and/or excuses not to deliver.
Midterm elections, war, money, etc., all tend to be barriers to progress.
I still believe The Wall will be built, just not as soon as I would like it. Right now, we have other priorities to deal with, two in particular Tax Reform and Health Care Reform.
Get those two things done, and the rest will come more easily. Businesses want to start hiring more people, and probably will with less taxation staring them in the face.
It’s not worth going through the fake drama of
‘government shut down’ just to press the wall issue right now.
We already know that less illegals are crossing the borders today than a few months ago. So in some ways, President Trump is already on the right track, even before the physical wall has been put up.
He will absolutely not cave on the wall.
Anything from the cesspits known as MSM is tainted, fake, lying, mixed with crap, half the truth plus additional other stuff - unless and until I hear something from a reputable source, I don’t even read it, don’t set my hair on fire, and don’t clutch any pearls.
Trump made the wall THE cornerstone of his campaign. If he allows Graham and the other losers in Club RINO to define what a wall means downward then Trump played us just like every other politician.
I don’t have to have it all funded by May, but if a wall is nothing more than a euphemism for more border security then we will have been screwed with Democrats totally winning. Border security funding can easily be demolished with the next Obama and we would be right back in the soup.
No sale. Build the wall or else the swamp wins and I pray every last Republican in Congress loses in 2018 with no amount of election year sloganeering being able to pull their lying backside out of the fire. And it will be a mid-term bloodbath.
I saw the Spicer Report today, and Sean said nothing about flexibility on the Wall, other than to say Mexico would eventually pay for it. Several of them tried to get him to say that, so I guess if they ask him a question a certain number of times and he doesn’t give them the answer they want, the just say he did. Very, very FAKE NEWS!
The caving on the wall will guarantee Ossoff wins.
Mr. Trump should tell us why U.S. taxpayers should be on the hook for the $10 to $20 billion or so. No hints as to how Mexico will pay for it? Estimated yearly maintenance is $700 million or so. If no alternate funding sources are identified, just do strict enforcement of E-Verify, beef up the Border Patrol and ICE, cut off welfare for illegals and continue to deport. And save billions of dollars!
Close government for 10 days—> use savings to pay for wall. Problem solved.
Spending battles in the Obama years? WHAT battles? No one stopped him from spending as much as he wanted!
I hope not. Damn Paul Ryan and Rodney Frelinghuysen.
Uhhhh... in my book, in a sentence with congress, overspending is one word.
“So what does everyone think, is Trump going to cave on the wall?”
Too early to tell, but I wouldn’t chalk this up as a good start.
He won’t cave - he will build his leverage until the RINOs have no choice.
If he backs off building the wall, he is backing away from his NUMBER ONE campaign promise. I would be surprised AND VERY DISAPPOINTED.