Trump signals he'll make shutdown a 2020 issue
Source: Politico
By CAITLIN OPRYSKO 01/16/2019 08:59 AM EST
President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that he could turn the ongoing government shutdown into a political issue in next year's presidential election, labeling "Radical Democrats" as a "party of open borders and crime."
Trumps White House is in the midst of stalled efforts to reopen portions of the federal government that shuttered late last year after the president refused to sign legislation to fund them. But even as the government remained mired in the longest shutdown in the nation's history, the president signaled that he will look to make political hay out of Democrats' unwillingness to meet his demands for $5.7 billion in funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
It is becoming more and more obvious that the Radical Democrats are a Party of open borders and crime, he claimed in a tweet. They want nothing to do with the major Humanitarian Crisis on our Southern Border. #2020!
The president has long insisted that a border wall, his signature campaign promise from 2016, is the only solution to what his administration has labeled as the crisis of drugs and migrants flowing across the nation's southern border. Democrats, led by newly installed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have refused to appropriate any money for the president's border wall, insisting instead that any border funding be directed towards other security priorities.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/16/trump-shutdown-democrats-2020-1103044
machoneman
(4,007 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Party.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...it's time for the rethuglican* party to be drowned in a bathtub.
Turbineguy
(37,346 posts)That gives people a chance to re-elect him for not doing his fucking job!
Gothmog
(145,338 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,744 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)The lost the House on immigration and if this shutdown continues, he'll lose his job and lose the Senate based on his gleeful destruction of America. Dems have winning message, he's the loser as long as we don't fold. Unfortunately America loses either way, as long as the government is shutdown, which is what he and his master intended from the beginning.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)turbinetree
(24,703 posts)your entire family is a criminal enterprise your one to talk......................
Timmygoat
(779 posts)What has he done about the tunnels under the wall?
akraven
(1,975 posts)golden shovel and hammer to help fill them in.
niyad
(113,370 posts)do they make "I love-me" jackets in orange?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,036 posts)dotard
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Simply play the clip over and over again...
"I'll tell you what, I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck. So, I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I'm not going to blame you for it."