Posted on 12/04/2018 5:03:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump called on Democrats on Tuesday to vote to fund his proposed border wall, saying the project would pay "for itself in two months."
In a tweet, Trump claimed "our Country losses 250 Billion Dollars a year on illegal immigration."
Trump's appeal to Democrats comes ahead of a homeland security spending fight to avoid a partial government shutdown originally slated for Friday.
House Republicans filed a stop-gap bill to move the deadline for a partial shutdown to Dec. 21 to accommodate for the funeral of former President George H.W. Bush, who died Friday.
That bill is likely to be approved, but will leave a small window for Congressional leaders to pass appropriation bills before leaving Washington for the holidays.
And with Democrats due to take over the House in January, Trump's window to pay for his signature campaign proposal could be closing.
The House had previously passed a bill that included $5 billion for border security, but the Senate version included less than $2 billion. Trump has indicated he won’t sign a bill that includes less than $5 billion earmarked for the wall.
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Democrats know we’re losing billions of dollars - they don’t care.
Most of these illegals will go on welfare and in a few years democrats will make them citizens AND new democrats.
Trump is going to spend the next 2 years torturing the Democrats over the wall.
Guys like Conor Lamb are going to be so sick of talking about it they’re going to wish Trump would just nail them to a wall someplace.
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