Is President Trump prepared to accept blimps, motion sensors as bricks in his border wall?
As Twitchy reported, House Democrats have presented a list of demands they expect to be met if Republicans want to avoid a government shutdown. For one,theysay they wont accept any Republican budget proposal thatfundsPresident Trumps proposed border wall with Mexico.
.@SenSchumer to reporters on funding negotiations: "If they insist on a wall, they're insisting on a a government shut down."
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) April 24, 2017
That threat or attempt at a threat has a lot of politicians and pundits speculating Monday night about the wall, which obviously was a central campaign promise and many expected to be under construction by now.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, for one, made it pretty clear that there isn’t going to be a wall, or at least one solid wall from coast-to-coast. At this point, he says, the “wall” is more of a catch-all term for border security.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says they're not actually going to build a wall across the entire southern border & that it would be hard to fund.
— Emma Loop (@LoopEmma) April 24, 2017
"Border walls and fences are part of an overall plan but there will never be a 2,200-mile wall built. Period."-Sen. Lindsey Graham
— Liz Goodwin (@lizcgoodwin) April 24, 2017
The wall, explains Lindsey Graham, has become a "metaphor for border security," i.e. not a literal wall.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 24, 2017
FWIW this is the correct policy direction for those that care about securing the border. An actual wall makes no sense in many areas. https://t.co/ILaEBkS1M8
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) April 24, 2017
If I had recommended this policy in 2016, my mentions would've been Pepe frogs yelling at me to get on the MAGA Trump Train. https://t.co/cx0G2xvnFe
— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) April 25, 2017
Lindsey Graham says a lot of things, but it seems that President Trump would be OK with moving the fight over funding the border wall, whatever it might turn out to look like,to the fall.
BREAKING: Trump now open to getting $$$ for border wall this fall, instead of via this week's spending bill w govt shutdown crisis looming.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) April 24, 2017
& on #MTP yesterday Priebus said they'd be ok w/ "either the construction or the planning or enough to get going" -> https://t.co/0mpwhFNaud https://t.co/OoDoae7lq8
— Kailani Koenig (@kailanikm) April 25, 2017
On funding the border wall, Trump said he could get it this week or the administration could come back to it in September.
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) April 24, 2017
WH official confirms that Trump opened door to getting WALL funding this fall, instead of this week, in meeting with conservative journos https://t.co/4NaBSVcvrj
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) April 24, 2017
"I think you're going to get a down payment on border security, generally." Sen. Portman tonight on budget/wall talks, per @daveweigel
— Robert Costa (@costareports) April 24, 2017
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