Posted on 12/25/2018 9:47:48 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: Trump says no end to shutdown until border barrier funded, plans January visit to new section of wall
(CNN) - President Donald Trump said Tuesday the government won't reopen until funding is secured for his border barrier, and he plans to go to the border in January to visit a new stretch of wall.
"I can't tell you when the government is going to be open. I can tell you it's not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they would like to call it," Trump said in the Oval Office after a Christmas call with US troops. Negotiations between congressional Democrats and the Trump administration over the President's demands for a border wall have so far not yielded an agreement, and the shutdown will continue until at least Thursday, when the Senate returns to Washington. Both sides seem entrenched in their opposing stances and it's possible parts of the government could remain closed until the new Congress is seated in the first week of January, when Democrats will take control of the House. Trump repeated a claim made a day earlier -- without explanation -- that he'd recently approved 115 miles worth of border barrier. The White House hasn't provided any further details about the claim, which Trump first made on Twitter on Christmas Eve. He said he would go to the new stretch of the wall in January. "It's going to be built, hopefully rapidly," he said. "I'm going there at the end of January for the start of construction. That's a big stretch."
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Not only can drones and “smart sensors” (sic) be turned off, they don’t change the basic fact that the second an illegal puts a foot on U.S. soil and says the magic word “Amnestia!” he or she gets a bus ticket to the interior of the USA.
Trump needs to announce that his request for $5B is going increase $25mm a day until the Senate approves. After 40 days it’ll be up to $6B.
And then hold firm and watch the Dems give in.
All talking heads will be trying to lay this at Trumps feet when even its not the President’s job to properly fund the government, only to approve it. Apparently the President doesn’t approve of the financing the Legislature has forwarded for signature. He is doing his job as per the constitution and making it obvious who is not doing their’s.
No fence - only a wall.
The IRS IS shutdown. It is in the lists if you look. Plus, I have afriend works that works there and he confirms same.
I’m good with a barrier that does the job a wall would....I think the real gist of this story is that Trump is making a stand for We The People....
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