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Title: Border Lawmakers Balk at Donald Trump’s Wall Request
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Wall Street Journal
URL Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/border ... trumps-wall-request-1492802294
Published: Apr 21, 2017
Author: Laura Meckler and Kristina Peterson
Post Date: 2017-04-22 11:54:29 by misterwhite
Keywords: None
Views: 2403
Comments: 5
Not a single member of Congress who represents the territory on the southwest border said they support President Donald Trump’s request for $1.4 billion to begin construction of his promised wall, according to a Wall Street Journal survey, testing the administration’s ability to reach a deal on government funding next week. Most lawmakers representing the region—both Democrats and Republicans—said they are opposed and many said they have unanswered questions. A few were noncommittal, but not a single member of the House or Senate representing the region expressed support for the funding request. That includes nine members of the House and eight senators across four states: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Still, the White House is holding firm on its position. “You’re always going to have constituencies within both parties that have local issues—we get that,” Mick Mulvaney, the head of the Office of Management and Budget, said in an interview. He added that the GOP leadership is on board to fight for the funding because “they know it’s a priority for the president.”
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No problem, amigos. We'll simply build the wall on your northern border.
#2. To: misterwhite (#1)
Gee, what a surprise, coming from the never-met-an-illegal-we-wanted-to-deport Wall Street Journal. Let's look at a map of the 117th Congress in 2017, red for GOPs and blue for Dims: Notice anything there about the party affiliation of those representing nearly all of these border districts? Somehow, the WSJ overlooked this key fact about "bipartisan opposition" to the wall in border districts. What a disgrace these blue-blood Yankee scumbag open-borders hypocrites at the Journal really are.
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