Sen Van Hollen: ‘Many Experts Said It Is Simply a Waste of Money to Build a Huge Wall’

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border was according to experts “a waste of money.”

Van Hollen said, “Let’s replay the tape a little bit on all of this. You remember when the president invited the cameras into the White House. He talked about how he wanted a bill of love, and he told Republicans and Democrats to come up with a bipartisan bill. People like Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin took him at his word. They went and did that. They came back, and the meeting blew up and triggered the government shut down.”

He added, “We in the Senate put together a bipartisan agreement to move forward on a budget. We tried to get opioid funding, tried to deal with community health centers and a commitment from Mitch McConnell to have a vote on a bipartisan DACA bill. We will have to negotiate what goes in that bill. Everyone is in favor of border security. We need border security. The issue is smart use of taxpayer dollars. You know many experts have said it is simply a waste of money to build a huge wall, one that the president said Mexico is going to pay for.”

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