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Jan. 31, 2019, 5:05 PM EST
By Jonathan Allen
WASHINGTON ... The fight has cost him 35 days of a government shutdown, several points in most surveys of his approval ratings and the pain of criticism from his right flank ...
If Democrats don't put up money for the wall, Trump will have a ready-made issue for his re-election campaign and to help Republican congressional candidates in 2020, said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which seeks to end illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration.
He's "set up the Democrats to look so weak on border security that they're going to get their clock cleaned," Stein said. "The Democrats are falling right into the bear trap."
Yet Trump focused his midterm barnstorming tour for Republican candidates on immigration and the wall, specifically and watched the House flip from GOP control into Democratic hands ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/stalled-wall-trump-s-path-victory-murky-n965571
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)William Cummings, USA TODAY
Published 3:03 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2019
WASHINGTON ... The Democratic proposal did include:
$675 million for scanners at points of entry
$502 million for "humanitarian concerns at the border" such as food and medical care
$400 million in border security technology, 1,000 new customs agents
$156.7 million for new boats, planes and sensors ...
The proposal .. denied the president's request for additional Border Patrol agents because "a staffing model to justify any increase" is "long overdue" ...
Pelosi did indicate she was open to vehicle barriers known as "Normandy fencing" ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/31/democrats-opening-border-security-offer/2732549002/
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)Published January 31, 2019
... Lets just call them WALLS from now on and stop playing political games! A WALL is a WALL! Trump tweeted ...
Originally, Trump reveled in the word wall, leading chants at political rallies of build the wall!
But as Democrats in Congress pushed back, accusing Trump of demonizing Central American immigrants and promoting medieval wall technology, he tried to soften the message, referring to a barrier.
Also, instead of a solid concrete structure, Trump began to emphasize that he was really asking for steel slats. Artistically designed steel slats, he specified in December ...
https://punchng.com/frustrated-trump-says-a-wall-is-a-wall/
Cool! Mexico is going to pay for artistic steel sculptures along the border!
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Emphasis changed to steel when his Russian steel pals saw billions of taxpayer dollars.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)By BURGESS EVERETT, CAITLIN OPRYSKO and ELIANA JOHNSON
01/31/2019 08:52 AM EST
Updated 01/31/2019 03:10 PM EST
... hes largely butting out of the private talks ...
Pelosi told reporters at her weekly press conference that theres not going to be any wall money in the legislation ...
Trump responded from the White House that he wouldnt accept a deal from Congress that didnt contain wall funding ...
Trump also claimed on Thursday, without evidence, that his administration had doled out new contracts for wall construction over the last month, despite the government being shutdown for a majority of that time ...
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/31/trump-border-wall-1138319
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)Does this idiot really believe that Democrats refusing to fund a border wall that an overwhelming margin of voters reject is going to "get their clock cleaned" in 2020?
I'm guessing he was probably among those predicting fear over those "migrant caravans" would lead to an unexpected Republican landslide last November, too...