I was merely pointing out your lie that they somehow only decided not to do something because of Trump.
I thought the talking points were that Trumps tough talk had cut the flow of illegal immigrants. Now you claim it is not working?
You seem a bit confused
And what the offered was a pittance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...114048-14f1-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html
In 2019, the federal government will spend a whopping
$4.407 trillion. Yet Congress and the president are shutting down the government in a dispute between the
$1.3 billion the Democrats have approved for border security and the
$5.7 billion the president is demanding — the difference being precisely 0.0998 percent of the total federal budget. In Washington, that is considered a rounding error.
Worse, Democrats are doing it over a border wall strikingly similar to one that they almost unanimously supported just five years ago. While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) now
says that “a wall is an immorality,” back in 2013, she supported a bill that required the construction of 700 miles of border fencing. (Trump has
called for a wall of “anywhere from 700 to 900 miles” long.) The bill negotiated by the
Gang of Eight, which included current Democratic leaders Sens. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and Richard J. Durbin (Ill.),
declared that “not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary [of Homeland Security] shall establish . . . the ‘Southern Border Fencing Strategy,’ to identify where 700 miles of fencing (including double-layer fencing) . . . should be deployed along the Southern border.”
That’s not all. The bill further said that “the Secretary may not adjust the status of aliens who have been granted registered provisional immigrant status . . . until 6 months after . . . [the Secretary submits] a written certification that . . . there is in place along the Southern Border no fewer than 700 miles of pedestrian fencing.” In other words, Democrats agreed that no illegal immigrants could get a path to citizenship until all 700 miles of border fencing had been fully completed.
Every Senate Democrat voted for the Gang of Eight bill — including 36 Democratic senators still serving today. President Barack Obama agreed to sign it. Indeed,
he praised the bill for including what he called “the most aggressive border security plan in our history” and said that “the Senate bill is
consistent with the key principles for commonsense reform that I — and many others — have repeatedly laid out” (emphasis added). That bears repeating: Obama said building a 700-mile fence on the southern border was consistent with the principles of the Democratic Party.
Pelosi supported the Gang of Eight bill,
saying at the time that “
every piece of this legislation has had bipartisan support” (emphasis added). But now we are shutting down the government over a wall much like the one that Pelosi and Senate Democrats fully supported just five years ago?
Care to guess how much THIS proposal was supposed to cost?
Sorry - they changed their mind because it was Trump. Period.
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