President Trump and Congress need to hear from the
American people that we support the president. It’s time to expose the truth about
how the Democrats have never planned to negotiate in good faith. Below are
details.
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Shutdown Negotiations
· Nancy Pelosi
and the Democratic leadership have been exposed, they never planned on
negotiating in good faith.
· The President
asked Pelosi and Schumer if they would follow through on wall funding after the
government was reopened, and Pelosi said no.
· From the
beginning, the President has said border security, including a physical
barrier, is a requirement.
· Democrats are
not in favor of border security—if they were, they’d listen to our law
enforcement professionals and give them the resources and funding they need to
do their job and keep the American people safe.
· Kicking the
can down the road on the false promise of “considering” wall funding isn’t a
serious negotiation.
· Democrats need
to stop playing political games.
· It is past
time for Pelosi and the Democratic leadership to negotiate with President Trump
to provide border security, with funding for a wall, and reopen the government.
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HIGHLIGHTS | GOP
Leadership Remarks on the Southern Border Humanitarian Crisis
President Trump is calling on Democrats to
join Republicans to help address the humanitarian crisis on our Southern
border.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “The United States must not incentivize
or enable these evil crimes. Instead, we should do everything we can to fight
them and that's what we're doing. I call on Congress to send me a funding bill
to secure the border, build the barrier, and help end this horrific assault on
innocent life.”
Democrats continue to ignore the border
crisis in the name of politics.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “The only reason they're against it is
because I won the Presidency and they think they can try and hurt us going into
the presidency, but that's not going to happen. We don't give up. Because we're
doing, we're doing the right thing for our country.”
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Look, we can all play games. But a wall
is a necessity. All of the other things, the sensors and the drones, it's all
wonderful to have and works well but only if you have the wall. If you don't
have the wall, it doesn't matter. A drone isn't stopping a thousand people from
running through.”
VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: “Today, in this brief meeting, we
heard once again that Democratic leaders are unwilling to even negotiate to
resolve this partial government shutdown or address the crisis at our southern
border. They demanded once again that before any negotiations could begin, that
we would have to agree to reopen the government.”
VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: “I know there's going to be
millions of Americans, hundreds of thousands of federal workers, that are as
disappointed as we are that the Democrats are unwilling to engage in good faith
negotiations. But the American people know we face a serious humanitarian and
security crisis at our southern border.”
SEN. JOHN THUNE: “We were going to sit down and Democrats
were going to negotiate in good faith and we were going to come up with a
resolution. And they obviously had not moved an inch. They have accused the
President of not being willing to negotiate… but the President is more than
willing to negotiate.”
REP. STEVE SCALISE: “The families missing paychecks this
week, it's not fair to them to jokingly say you're going to offer only a dollar
to solve this problem when you haven't given any serious credible
counter-offer. The President's laid out many different options.”
President Trump and Republican leadership are
committed to addressing the border crisis.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “But the Republicans want border
security, they want national security, they want to have a steel barrier or a
wall of concrete, they don't care. But I’ll use any term they want. We need a
barrier to stop human traffickers and the drug trade and stop the big problems
that come including gangs.”
VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: “This President, our entire
Administration working with these Republican leaders, is going to continue to
drive forward to bring about the kind of reforms that well see the safety and
security of the American people.”
VICE PRESIDENT PENCE: “What the President made clear he's
going to stand firm to priorities to build a wall, a steel barrier on the
southern border, add additional personnel, resources, and additional reforms to
stem the crisis that we face on our southern border.”
REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY: “And as I’ve said before, I will
work with anyone that wants to move America forward, wants to secure our
border. This is the goal that everybody in that room, every Democrat said in
the room they're for border security.”
REP. MCCARTHY: “You ask me what American believes border
security does not have some form of a barrier. It’s only the democrats sitting
in that room have I ever found, and the way they have displayed and the
behavior is embarrassing to me. I want to solve this problem.”
Walls have been used for centuries because
they are effective.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “So we got to get the politics out of
this and go back to common sense. You know, they say it's a medieval solution,
a wall. That's true. It's medieval because it worked then and it works even
better now.”
DHS SECRETARY KIRSTJEN NIELSEN: “This is a crisis, it is
a humanitarian crisis, it is a security crisis. And the reality is that walls
work. Everywhere we have put up a wall illegal immigration has been reduced 90
to 95%. You want to stop the smuggling between ports of entry, you need a wall.
Stop the human misery, you need a wall.”
