26 August, 2017
But the president is hell-bent in his efforts of realizing the Mexico wall.
President Donald Trump can shift dramatically in tone from one speech to the next.
The logical impossibility of explaining that position was on full display Thursday when White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders took questions from reporters for the first time in three weeks.
Trump first tweeted about the possibility of a shutdown on August 9, 2013, the same day Washington leaders began to respond publicly to conservative lawmakers' willingness to shut down the government over ACA funding.
Here's what is really happening right here, though: We know that Congress can not approve such a disastrous project, not just because it's a stupid idea, but because of the astronomical cost associated with building this stupid wall. The president has said he will get Mexico to reimburse US taxpayers for the cost, but it's not clear exactly how he would do that.
Democrats are uniformly opposed to Trump's wall and say the responsibility for a shutdown would rest exclusively with Republicans.
Trump has publicly undermined members of his own party, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, and key lawmakers like Sen. "We're going to get that wall".
Conservative House Republicans agree with the Republican president on the need for a wall and say border-wall funding should be a priority in any spending legislation.
On Wednesday all three Valley Congressmen responded to Trump's remarks on the wall.
When was the last time this happened?
She adds: "anybody who is surprised by that has not been paying attention for two years"."The most sacred duty of government is to protect the lives of its citizens, and that includes securing our borders, and enforcing our immigration laws", Trump told his enthusiastic supporters Tuesday night at the Phoenix Convention Center.
"This is important because people understand that a sovereign nation needs physical borders", said Conway.
Mr. Trump campaign on making Mexico pay for the wall. When they can not agree on either a new spending plan or a short-term extension, the government shuts down. And he's stopped mentioning the whole Mexico-will-pay-for-it thing. He went after GOP senators and said the Senate should rewrite its rules to force through his agenda, saying this. A report by the Democratic staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has estimated the cost at closer to $70 billion, not including the annual cost of maintenance. Trump can bring pressure to bear on Mexico - particularly in regards trade - to attempt to extract money for the wall from them.
However, Trump promised that he would make the Mexican government pay for the barrier.
In the most recent shutdown, in 2013, House Republicans were widely seen as the culprits and were rescued from the harsh political fallout only by the Obama administration's dismal rollout of the Affordable Care Act after the shutdown ended.
But all of the spin in the world can't polish this turd of a campaign promise.
Trump's message in Phoenix echoes a stance he took when he was unhappy with the last bipartisan spending deal reached in May.