Leftists get triggered as Chuck Schumer signals willingness to negotiate on wall funding…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters that President Trump was going to get $1.6 billion to fund fences along the southern border.
The $1.6 billion is Schumer’s ‘pre-compromise’ figure. In actual negotiations, it’ll go higher.
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Late Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that he and his fellow Senate Democrats were open to inking a deal with President Donald Trump to provide partial funding for the president’s border wall.
Instead of demanding the border wall be excluded from funding in a budget fight set to take place next month, Schumer told reporters that he’s willing to allocate as much as $1.6 billion for the border wall which would run along the United States’ southern border as part of a program to deter illegal immigration.
President Donald Trump, of course, has made the border wall a hallmark of his anti-immigration policies and has repeatedly threatened to “shut down” the government if the wall is not fully funded.
The pledge to allocate $1.6 billion is not a hard promise for Schumer to make. The Senate has already agreed to spend $1.6 billion for the border wall as part of an earlier budget plan, funding mostly Homeland Security projects. But President Donald Trump recently told Congress that he wants more — at least $5 billion in funds — to build the wall, and that he won’t sign any budget package without a detailed plan outlining multi-year spending on a complete blockade. More
Other leftists get triggered…
The correct amount of funding for the wall is $0.00. https://t.co/hBZ9kPoyCX
— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 27, 2018
People living in our borderlands would have their environment and communities destroyed by Trump’s wall, @SenSchumer. They deserve a public debate.
We’ll start: There’s no reason Democrats should be giving in and allocating any funding for a wall, let alone $1.6 billion. https://t.co/ov2aVBLXBY
— ACLU (@ACLU) November 28, 2018
This is malpractice, politically and substantively. https://t.co/3hAVn789Q6
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 27, 2018
Make no mistake: this is political cowardice. We don’t need a dime for a wall, a fence, a ping-pong net partition, none of it.
We need Democratic leadership who are going to have a goddamn backbone and reject this racist ideology. https://t.co/yH6Gw3vLWP
— Charlotte Clymer🏳️🌈 (@cmclymer) November 28, 2018
Schumer’s office says the $1.6 billion in funding Democrats want is for border security generally – fencing, not a concrete wall as Trump wants to spend $5B for. Schumer at presser: “The $1.6 billion for border security negotiated by Democrats and Republicans is our position” https://t.co/nU38Z3Onv8
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 27, 2018
This is the correct position on funding the wall. pic.twitter.com/8Q2HTCz77B
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 27, 2018
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