Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Government shutdown is Trump's fault
Source: Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) Sen. Elizabeth Warren ramped up her criticism of President Donald Trump on Monday faulting him for the partial federal government shutdown during remarks at the 49th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast in Boston.
As we speak, our government is shut down for one reason: So that the president of the United States can fund a monument to hate and division along our southern border, the Massachusetts Democrat said during a 10-minute speech. This is the old divide-and-conquer strategy. The goal is to turn hardworking people against other hardworking people. The intent is to promote fear and hatred.
During the event, Warren also responded to Trumps offer to Democrats on Saturday to open the government in exchange for temporary protections for young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and those fleeing disaster zones. Warren said Trump must open the government immediately.
If the president wants to negotiate over immigration reform, Im all for it, Warren said after the speech. But open the government and open it now.
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dansolo
(5,376 posts)Elizabeth Warren is wrong. Trump is a coward. I'm not sure he would actually veto a bill to re-open the government if it came to him. And even if it did, a veto could be overridden. Mitch McConnell is protecting Trump by making it so that he won't be forced to veto. As a Senator, she should loudly call out McConnell. I'm very disappointed that she hasn't. No wonder he is able to get away with everything. None of the Senators on our side are willing to call him out.
llmart
(15,552 posts)Dems in the Senate need to put the pressure on McConnell now. Give him a taste of his own medicine - the medicine he so gleefully dished out when President Obama took office. That message where he determined that they would block every single thing that President Obama tried to do right from the start. Turnabout is fair play as they say.
Maxheader
(4,374 posts)make a pimple on the great mans butt? How its real attitude towards minorities ,
has created so much divisiveness? It feeds the 30%ers..