Lindsey Graham 'not very optimistic' about wall funding deal, urges Trump to go it alone
Source: Post and Courier
By Jamie Lovegrove jlovegrove@postandcourier.com Feb 4, 2019 Updated 12 min ago
GREENVILLE As a Feb. 15 deadline approaches, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday he is not very optimistic Democrats and Republicans can strike a deal over border wall funding and encouraged President Donald Trump to take the issue into his own hands.
Trump gave congressional negotiators three weeks to come up with an agreement before partial government funding runs out, setting up another potential federal shutdown.
Ill be disappointed if we dont get money for the wall, the barrier, whatever you want to call it, Graham, R-S.C., told reporters before speaking to the First Monday GOP club in Greenville.
It seems to me that (Trump) is going to have to go it alone, he said.
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mac56
(17,569 posts)cstanleytech
(26,295 posts)to declare a national emergency and the Repugnants do not agree to stop him from doing it then they better damn well not bitch when the next Democrat in the white house invokes it to do things like hike taxes on the wealthy or expand medicare to everyone because of a national healthcare emergency.
gordianot
(15,240 posts)Donald or little Lindsey?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Trump cannot spend money that Congress has not appropriated.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Don't need a deal... Mexico will pay for the wall, Lindsey.
Thunderbeast
(3,417 posts)Did we not fight the Revolutionary War in protest of this notion?
Senator Graham has lost his bearings....
...or he is owned by the same puppet masters.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)which is the one that covers HIS role in this government, is separate from Article II?
There's nothing in the Constitution that suddenly combines Articles I's & II's functionality into a single Borg-like collective... except in the GOP's fictional universe.
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)dirt on Graham like Russian bribe money in an off shore money laundry. Could Graham be setting up Trump for impeachment?