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U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz criticized President Donald Trump on Friday for stealing military construction money to pay for his xenophobic vanity wall project on the U.S. border with Mexico.
Delivering the national Democrats weekly address, Wasserman Schultz said the wall is wasteful, a boondoggle and a monstrosity.
The Broward/Miami-Dade County Democrat is chairwoman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on military construction and veterans affairs. We cannot allow this president to turn our national security into some sick reality TV plot, Wasserman Schultz said in the Democrats national weekly address, in which she called the wall a wasteful solution to a manufactured crisis that intoxicates his base and turns our service members into political pawns.
The video of Wasserman Schultzs remarks, which can be seen on House Speaker Nancy Pelosis Twitter feed and YouTube page, was released Friday. The weekly address started as the other partys response to an address given every week by the president from 1992 until Trump discontinued the practice.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-wasserman-schultz-trump-military-money-wall-20190906-d2nsnq253rghdconufg5dphlfe-story.html
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Meadowoak
(5,562 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)That was his election, from start to finish.
BlueMTexpat
(15,374 posts)It was those who forced her out due to leaked DNC email conversations (not hers), James Comey, other Russian interventions, e.g., troll farms, followers of a certain other non-Trump candidate, along with all the usual voter intimidation and gerrymandering.
I am not a DWS fan. But she gets a bum rap here, IMO.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)And his no-bid construction partners ?
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)mcar
(42,402 posts)Auggie
(31,204 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,361 posts)What's going on in Scotland's new fuel depot? Is it a good deal for the airlines?