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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 12:33 PM Feb 2019

Not ready to admit neither Mexico nor Congress will pay for wall

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 8:56 AM ET, Tue February 12, 2019

... In his hour-and-15-minute address, Trump excoriated Democrats and repeated false claims that the nearby wall had meant huge cuts in the city's violent crime. But the President told the audience he had chosen not to learn the details of a bipartisan deal to avert a shutdown before he clambered onstage ...

That in itself was a hint that there was no famous victory to crow about and that the agreement reached in Washington -- which contains only $1.375 billion for barriers and no wall -- falls well short of the President's demands for $5.7 billion ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/12/politics/donald-trump-immigration-el-paso-rally-congress-deal/index.html

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Not ready to admit neither Mexico nor Congress will pay for wall (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2019 OP
Texas Republican Kay Granger says deal fulfills wall promise struggle4progress Feb 2019 #1
My question has always been, should Maxheader Feb 2019 #2

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
1. Texas Republican Kay Granger says deal fulfills wall promise
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 12:35 PM
Feb 2019

BY ANDREA DRUSCH
FEBRUARY 11, 2019 10:00 PM

... Granger told the Star-Telegram that Republicans and Democrats have reached an agreement she said will give the president his wall, and keep the government from once again entering a partial shutdown at the end of the week ...

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article226129315.html

Maxheader

(4,373 posts)
2. My question has always been, should
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 12:43 PM
Feb 2019

obama have had more improvements done to the southern security?
Or, is this all being built up by the wingers..? From one of their many
psychosis?

A mental disorder characterized by a disconnection from reality.
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