Trump: If Dems Won’t Vote To Fund Border Wall, The Military Will Build It
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Tue, 12/11/2018
Lawmakers are furiously negotiating to try and strike a compromise that would avert a partial government shutdown (what would be the third since Trump’s inauguration), but President Trump is digging in his heels and demanding that any funding bill set aside at least $5 billion for his promised border wall in what looks to be a last-ditch gambit to fulfill one of his most grandiose campaign promises before Democrats take the House in January.
And just in case Democratic leaders were hoping they could push through another compromise capitulation (like they did earlier this year), Trump issued a series of browbeating tweets Tuesday morning warning accusing Democrats of hypocrisy by reminding the world that both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer voted to fund the construction of a border barrier back in 2006 (they voted for a bill that, as Politifact reminds us, wasn’t all that different from what Trump has proposed).
Between the Wall prototypes and the renovations that have already been approved by Congress and the Trump Administration, Trump said many Americans don’t realize how much of the wall has already been built. And if Democrats don’t give Trump what he wants, the president said he’s prepared to do an end-run around Congress and order the military to build the wall.
Trump is expected to meet with Pelosi and Schumer on Tuesday for face-to-face budget talks as the Dec. 21 deadline is less than two weeks away.
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