Jonathan Allen reported on Congress, the White House and electoral politics in Washington for 15 years. He's a co-author of the New York Times-bestselling "HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton"
Posted on 02/12/2019 9:58:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ANALYSIS: Lawmakers refused to authorize funding to pay for the president's big campaign promise. Then he took the stage in El Paso.
President Donald Trump had the perfect script written for the unofficial launch of his re-election campaign in El Paso, Texas.
Back on the trail on Monday night - amid a flurry of Democrats entering the 2020 race and with the backdrop of an iconic border crossing - the president was champing at the bit to the tell the story of an extremist rival party that is hostile to border security and of the wall he would build come hell or high water.
But just before he took the stage, the script flipped.
Back in Washington, Trump learned, Congress had just demolished his wall.
It was a predictable outcome: When Trump announced last month that he was ending a self-inflicted 35-day partial government shutdown, it was clear he was flying the white flag of surrender from an imaginary watchtower on the unbuilt wall. But the final frame of the president's slow-motion capitulation couldn't have come at a worse moment for him.
By all accounts, including his own, he had been looking forward to this moment. There can be little doubt that, after watching Democrats pile into the presidential race over the last couple of months, Trump had been more than ready to let loose. And, as he said Monday night, it was "more fun" to go to a campaign rally than to deliver his State of the Union address last week.
The next part - the reality of Congress outright rejecting his wall yet again - promises to be a lot less fun.
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Jonathan Allen reported on Congress, the White House and electoral politics in Washington for 15 years. He's a co-author of the New York Times-bestselling "HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton"
That would be OUR WALL. Idiot.
NBC pretends 25% = 0.
Looks like John is having some premature ejaculation.
NBC pretends that Congress is somehow going to stop the President from building the wall. The man NEVER gives up and they keep thinking they have him stopped.
Yes. I emailed to our local ABC station this morning and said the wall will benefit all U S citizens, and asked them to QUIT calling it “Trump’s wall” or “his wall”. I did get a response, but who knows if anything will change. ?
Listening carefully to Rush today it seems that DJT will take the deal then declare an emergency. Not a win, but not a loss either.
Shut ‘er down!
IF Congress funds $1.3B for the wall then they have agreed to build a section of wall and can’t say they are against the wall. They could say they disagree with the President on the amount and how fast to build it.
A shill. A propagandist. Not a journalist.
I hate it when the lying leftist DNC MSM calls it "his wall" or "Trump's wall." It a BORDER wall.
Not a win, but not a loss either.
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To the contrary. Its a win-win. He gets some money and then adds more to it under his emergency powers. He does both.
as long as there are no poison pills in it like a cap on detention facilities for criminals
It is NOT Trump’s effing wall, it is OUR wall, you know, The millions of people who elected him to build the wall for the safety of our country and families..
If this passes congress, I think he President should veto it and let Congress eat it\own it.
override or no override, it’s theirs.
as long as there are no poison pills in it like a cap on detention facilities for criminals
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Its probably laden with poisen pills thanks to the weak and feckless GOP that refuses to back Trump.
Time for a new party.
I despise most of the Republicans in Congress even more than I do the Democrats. They are NOT on the side of taxpaying middle-class Americans.
I’m about 99% sure I took that guy’s lunch money in middle school.
My grandchildren’s wall, fatboy.
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