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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,010 posts)
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 01:56 PM Jul 2017

Trump wall moves to center of shutdown fight

Two House conservatives on Monday warned that the government could shut down if a spending bill does not include money to fund President Trump’s wall along the Mexican border.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, even said he believed that Trump would veto a spending measure that did not include money for the wall.

“My conversations with the president have led me to believe that there is nothing less than a full and total commitment on his part to only sign into law a funding bill that actually allows for us to start construction of a border wall on our southern border,” Meadows told Breitbart News.

He said there was “nothing more critical that has to be funded than funding the border wall.”

Earlier on Monday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) vowed to “fight every spending bill that doesn’t fund that wall” in a new advertisement for his Senate campaign.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/341380-trump-wall-moves-to-center-of-shutdown-fight

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Trump wall moves to center of shutdown fight (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2017 OP
Good grief. Shut it down and publicize why. uppityperson Jul 2017 #1
Remind me again who's running the show here? Blue_Adept Jul 2017 #2
Bring it on Chipper Chat Jul 2017 #3
HA HA benld74 Jul 2017 #4
Shouldn't they be threatening to somehow shut down the Mexican Government justhanginon Jul 2017 #5
So he can blame someone else when it doesn't happen. louis-t Jul 2017 #6

Blue_Adept

(6,399 posts)
2. Remind me again who's running the show here?
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 02:00 PM
Jul 2017

They control it all and are basically shooting each other in the face. Not the lesson they were supposed to learn from Cheney.

justhanginon

(3,290 posts)
5. Shouldn't they be threatening to somehow shut down the Mexican Government
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 02:22 PM
Jul 2017

since their government is the one that is going to have to fund it. Isn't that what our glorious leader promised in no uncertain terms?
Why should we even consider funding it?

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