Trump Mulls ‘Emergency’ After Mexico, GOP And Now Pelosi Won’t Pay For His Wall
But funding a border wall wasn’t even the president’s priority until just before the midterm elections. Hmmm! Would that have anything to do with Republicans having lost the House? Then there's this:
**********“There is no wall going up,” said Rick Tyler, a Republican consultant who worked for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign during the 2016 presidential primaries. “So the only thing to conclude is that Trump is building a fake wall with fake pesos to stop fake caravans to prevent a fake border crisis for which he will declare another fake victory.”
The president triggered a 35-day government shutdown just before Christmas over the refusal by the then wholly Republican-led Congress to appropriate billions of taxpayer dollars for his signature campaign promise.
Senate GOP Rebukes Trump Over Syria, Afghanistan Withdrawals
Most Senate Democrats likely to or already declared as running for president in 2020 opposed the move. Cracks in the Republican wall of support for Trump?
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Customs And Border Protection Makes Largest Fentanyl Bust In Agency’s History
More than 250 pounds of the deadly drug worth $3.5 million was picked up by authorities in Arizona. Didn't Trump say that all those nasty drugs were coming into the country from Mexico, thus the need for his precious border wall?
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Trump Administration Secretly Shipped Plutonium From Red To Blue State
Nevada’s Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak blasts the move as “reckless disregard” for citizens by the administration. Well, reckless disregard is what this administration does best.
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Trump On Stacey Abrams’ State Of The Union Response: ‘I Respect Her’
The president previously called the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee “unqualified” while campaigning for her opponent. Considering Trump is dumber than a box of rocks and doesn't bother trying to educate himself about politics, for him to call someone else unqualified is insulting.