Posted on 12/25/2018 10:13:37 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Working on Christmas Eve and through the government shutdown over border wall funding, President Donald Trump tweeted he had authorized the construction of a 115-mile stretch of border wall in Texas.
"I am in the Oval Office & just gave out a 115 mile long contract for another large section of the Wall in Texas," President Trump tweeted Monday night. "We are already building and renovating many miles of Wall, some complete.
"Democrats must end Shutdown and finish funding. Billions of Dollars, & lives, will be saved!"
Working in the Oval Office after canceling his trip to Mar-a-Lago in Florida because of the shutdown, President Trump met Monday with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other officials to discuss border security issues as a partial government shutdown over his U.S.-Mexico border wall entered Christmas without a clear resolution in sight.
Though both sides have traded offers over the dollars, they remain far apart on the wall. The White House insisted Trump will reject any deal that does not include money for a wall or fence; Democrats held firm in their opposition to a wall or other physical barrier.
In a joint statement Monday, the Democratic leaders of Congress, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, said as long as Trump keeps listening to the House Freedom Caucus and others on the right flank, there is no easy resolution to the impasse.
"It's Christmas Eve and President Trump is plunging the country into chaos," the leaders said...
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Schumer: Obstructing. Again. As usual.
It's clearly the worstest disaster ever in history.
The UN cometh. Halloween would have been a better holiday to represent their emergence. The evil darkness is showing it's face more openly now.
In my thinking it's either a miracle, CW2, Brazil, or Uruguay.
Nobody complains about the 700+ mile long big, beautiful wall built between Turkey and Syria.
This is what we voted for. Thank G-d.
The Rio Bravo provides a lot of natural border. Its not impenetrable but it is a deterrent.
The Turkey Syria wall is actually 515 miles long along the entire border & was built to prevent illegal alien entry & smuggling. I suspect that Turkey has severe penalties for crossing it
“President Trump is plunging the country into chaos,” the leaders said.
To resolve the chaos I guess Trump will have convene military tribunals against the traitors.
A chaos created by stopping the hordes of unvetted 3rd world criminal invaders from entering our country! This is a kind of chaos I can deal with. I just wish Mr. Trump would do something about the voter fraud that has empowered Mr. Schumer and Mrs. Pelosi. That issue needs to be addressed every bit as much stopping this invasion.
No chaos here in AR. Anybody else in the country heard of any chaos?
Hope McAllen to both East and West, but including Brownsville which is more than 110 miles.
Oops. 115, not 110 miles.
In 2009, we were reported to have more than 580 miles of fencing along the US-Mexico border.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_barrier
Today, just now, President Trump said he is aiming to have 500-550 miles (on a 1989 mile border) of new or renovated barrier by election day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u701T-fd4SQ&feature=youtu.be
That could include zero miles of new fencing/barrier and fewer total miles than we had a decade ago!
since the last shutdown
since the tax cuts
since the end of net Neutrality
since we pulled out of the Paris Accord
since Trump was elected
No chaos in PA.Just a quiet, peaceful Christmas day. Of course, I haven’t a Liberal within 1,000 feet of me, either.
Can the money saved in Syria be used to build lots of miles of Wall?
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