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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:12 AM Jan 2019

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Government shutdown is Trump's fault

Source: Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren ramped up her criticism of President Donald Trump on Monday faulting him for the partial federal government shutdown during remarks at the 49th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in Boston.

“As we speak, our government is shut down for one reason: So that the president of the United States can fund a monument to hate and division along our southern border,” the Massachusetts Democrat said during a 10-minute speech. “This is the old divide-and-conquer strategy. The goal is to turn hardworking people against other hardworking people. The intent is to promote fear and hatred.”

During the event, Warren also responded to Trump’s offer to Democrats on Saturday to open the government in exchange for temporary protections for young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and those fleeing disaster zones. Warren said Trump must open the government immediately.

“If the president wants to negotiate over immigration reform, I’m all for it,” Warren said after the speech. “But open the government and open it now.”

Read more: https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/01/21/sen-elizabeth-warren-government-shutdown-is-trumps-fault

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Government shutdown is Trump's fault (Original Post) TomCADem Jan 2019 OP
No, it is Mitch McConnell's fault dansolo Jan 2019 #1
This is exactly what is needed! llmart Jan 2019 #2
Did she point out to the traitor how it wouldn't.. Maxheader Jan 2019 #3

dansolo

(5,376 posts)
1. No, it is Mitch McConnell's fault
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 08:30 AM
Jan 2019

Elizabeth Warren is wrong. Trump is a coward. I'm not sure he would actually veto a bill to re-open the government if it came to him. And even if it did, a veto could be overridden. Mitch McConnell is protecting Trump by making it so that he won't be forced to veto. As a Senator, she should loudly call out McConnell. I'm very disappointed that she hasn't. No wonder he is able to get away with everything. None of the Senators on our side are willing to call him out.

llmart

(15,503 posts)
2. This is exactly what is needed!
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 09:19 AM
Jan 2019

Dems in the Senate need to put the pressure on McConnell now. Give him a taste of his own medicine - the medicine he so gleefully dished out when President Obama took office. That message where he determined that they would block every single thing that President Obama tried to do right from the start. Turnabout is fair play as they say.

Maxheader

(4,366 posts)
3. Did she point out to the traitor how it wouldn't..
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 09:28 AM
Jan 2019

make a pimple on the great mans butt? How its real attitude towards minorities ,
has created so much divisiveness? It feeds the 30%ers..

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