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Dem lawmaker calls on Democrats to ‘give Trump the money’ for border wall
The Hill ^ | January 22, 2019 | Morgan Gstalter

Posted on 01/22/2019 1:28:30 PM PST by jazusamo

Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) called on his Democratic colleagues to give President Trump the funding for his long-desired border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, saying its construction is inevitable.

“Give Trump the money,” Peterson told KFGO’s “News & Views” on Tuesday. “I’d give him the whole thing … and put strings on it so you make sure he puts the wall where it needs to be. Why are we fighting over this? We’re going to build that wall anyway, at some time.”

The 15-term congressman said top Democrats look at him “cross-eyed” when he makes this suggestion.

The funding could come with stipulations requiring some money go toward Border Patrol and improving security measures at ports of entry, Peterson said.

“I don’t know if I want to give (Trump) a blank check, but I don’t want to preclude him from getting the money either, if he’s going to use the money correctly,” Peterson told the the outlet.

Peterson said Democratic leadership handing over the requested $5.7 billion for the wall would end the “unnecessary” partial government shutdown which began on Dec. 22.

He is one of Congress’s most conservative Democrats and represents Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District, an area Trump won by 30 points during the 2016 presidential election.

The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee said he hasn’t been in contact with the Trump White House about shutdown negotiations, adding “I don’t now how we get (to a deal.)”

The partial government shutdown, currently in its 32nd day, has forced roughly a quarter of the government to shutter. Approximately 800,000 federal employees have been furloughed or are working without pay.

Trump offered a proposal on Saturday that would fully reopen the government, provide money for the wall and give a three-year extension of legal protections to immigrants who are Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients or Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders.

Top Democrats, however, dismissed his proposal as a non-starter.

“Democrats were hopeful that the President was finally willing to re-open government and proceed with a much-need discussion to protect the border. Unfortunately, initial reports make clear that his proposal is a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in statement.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: 116th; aliens; bordersecurity; botox; buildthefence; buildthewall; california; collinpeterson; daca; democrats; dreamact; dreamers; federalspending; minnesota; nancypelosi; sanfrancisco; sanfrannan; trumpwall; wall; wallfunding
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To: gov_bean_ counter

So primary him with AOC’s little sister, and when the dust settles, a Republican will be elected in the general.


21 posted on 01/22/2019 1:55:29 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

“The Demonrat’s control over their caucus is splintering.”

This conclusion may be a little premature. Even a dying rattlesnake can still be deadly, striking out with even the last tremor.

And the rattlesnake is nowhere near that incapacitated yet.


22 posted on 01/22/2019 1:56:10 PM PST by alloysteel (Man does not live by bread alone. He needs chocolate cake too.)
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To: jazusamo

If I were a furloughed fedgov employee, I’d be lighting up the capitol switchboard urging my liberal rep to play ball with Trump. Give him what he wants.


23 posted on 01/22/2019 2:04:42 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: gibsonguy
No, he's in a conservative district, NW Minnesota. He was also the first Democrat to call on Al Gore to throw in the towel after the Florida recount.

That's why he's been their congressmen since I lived in his district during my college years and I'm in my 60's now. He is their token guy to poke a stick in Nancy Pelosi's eye. He may also very well be the last Blue Dog.

24 posted on 01/22/2019 2:05:01 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: jazusamo
He needs to come over to our side.


25 posted on 01/22/2019 2:10:29 PM PST by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: technically right

“After Nancy takes him to the woodshed....”

Woodshed?! He’s going to be sold for body parts or end up in a tuna can like Jimmie Hoffa. Where’s Bill when you need him for a job he is qualified for? His “job needs” are popping up all over and he’s still out to lunch.

rwood


26 posted on 01/22/2019 2:13:35 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: treetopsandroofs

How soon before he turns up dead in some DC park, of an “apparent suicide” - with three bullet holes through the back of his head?


27 posted on 01/22/2019 2:19:28 PM PST by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: gibsonguy

New #1 on AOC’s Most Unwanted List


28 posted on 01/22/2019 2:28:02 PM PST by montag813
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To: jazusamo

Our new ‘rat representative from south Jersey, Jeff Van Drew, said about the same thing on TV on Sunday - shouldn’t take too many more before even Nancy starts to understand what’s needed.....


29 posted on 01/22/2019 2:30:11 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: jazusamo

Well, that’s one; only 18 Dems to go to reach 218 and a majority.


30 posted on 01/22/2019 3:06:01 PM PST by Nero Germanicus
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To: Eleutheria5
‘Save The Dreamers’: WaPo Implores Democrats To Take Trump’s Wall Deal
31 posted on 01/22/2019 3:08:46 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: technically right

One of the dems should just knock her out, and every time she talks pound her again


32 posted on 01/22/2019 3:12:18 PM PST by aces
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To: jazusamo
The dike (or is it Nancy the dyke) is breaking! Sorry, I know that is politically not correct, as I have a number of lesbian friends and relatives (even though I am a man.)

Still, I think that Trump is winning, and this will soon turn into a wave of weakness on the part of Democrats that Nancy and Chuck will pay for with their careers.

33 posted on 01/22/2019 3:35:46 PM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: jazusamo

Ask the 4 people murdered in Nevada south of Reno if they would liked to have had a WALL.


34 posted on 01/22/2019 3:58:22 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

Yes, very sad for those murdered and criminal that Dems ignore the fact a criminal illegal alien murdered them.


35 posted on 01/22/2019 4:07:45 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

A Dem and a lucid moment is a rarity.


36 posted on 01/22/2019 5:20:36 PM PST by Amish with an attitude
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To: wildcard_redneck

And Mitch just gave them an out. Stabbed Trump in the back again. Disaster


37 posted on 01/22/2019 5:23:09 PM PST by wiseprince
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To: jazusamo

I think we need $15 billion up front for the wall.

Just because they dragged this out.


38 posted on 01/22/2019 5:50:15 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ReformedBeckite

lol


39 posted on 01/22/2019 5:51:24 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Bump!


40 posted on 01/22/2019 6:03:52 PM PST by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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