Border Wall - Page 28

President Donald Trump claims he has awarded a contract to construct 115 miles of border wall in Texas as a partial government shutdown over the U.S.-Mexico border wall extends into Christmas Eve.

“I am all alone (poor me) in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

As Congress has yet to accept or reject a proposal providing $5 billion to fund a wall along the U.S. southern border, people have decided to take matters into their own hands with different crowdfunding campaigns in support of and against the border wall.

Both Democrat and Republican political establishments have decried the cost of President Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall while $115 million in American taxpayer money has funded the Somali National Army, tourism in Egypt, quails on cocaine, and more.

The UMaine College Republicans hosted a “Deck the Wall,” Christmas party much to the displeasure of their progressive peers.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile described President Donald Trump unraveling.” During a panel discussion about the recent stock market losses, government shutdown and resignation of Defense Secretary James Mattis, Brazile said, “Let me say this,

Sebastian Gorka, former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, spoke with Breitbart News about the situation surrounding the border wall funding during Turning Point USA’s 2018 Student Action Summit.

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) said President Donald Trump causing a government shutdown over funding for a wall on the U.S. Mexico border is “juvenile.” Corker said, “This is a purposely contrived fight over,

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Justice” on the Fox News Channel, host Jeanine Pirro urged President Donald Trump to not back down on the border wall fight in her “Opening Statement” segment. Pirro reminded Trump the border wall was one

The dramatic vote in the Senate Friday afternoon on whether to proceed to a final vote on the House-passed continuing budget resolution that includes $5.7 billion of border wall funding placed an intense spotlight on three Democrat senators whose re-election prospects in 2020 are considered uncertain.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) says the Republicans in the House and Senate, as well as President Trump, ought to tie $25 billion in border wall funding to Sen. Chuck Schumer’s infrastructure plan. 

Congressional leaders said late Friday there will be no new House or Senate votes on Friday evening, meaning the federal government is heading into a partial shutdown at midnight for the third time in President Donald Trump’s presidency.

The Senate advanced the House-passed spending bill that contains $5.7 billion in wall funding on Friday.

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel attacked supporters of the border wall crowd fund effort in a rant Thursday, accusing them of being “very dopey people” who are donating their “meth money.”

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) pledged on Friday to vote against a spending bill that contains wall funding after revealing in August that she has “always supported” increased border security and wall funding.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) rejected President Donald Trump’s call to partially fund the border wall with a simple majority vote on Friday, suggesting not enough Senate Republicans support the measure.

Left-wing Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano mocked the crowd funding campaign to build a border wall, started by a triple amputee Air Force veteran, arguing that the money could be used to take “care of our veterans.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Thursday evening that Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis could have sent in his resignation letter because he did not want to build President Donald Trump’s border wall.

“Thank you to our GREAT Republican Members of Congress for your VOTE to fund Border Security and the Wall,” Trump wrote about the vote, in which House Republicans passed the bill with a 217-185 vote.

Thursday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said it would be “bullshit” if President Donald Trump attempted to blame Democrats for a government shutdown. Discussing the deal to keep the government open until February, Hirono said, “Of course, the Senate

The House passed a spending bill that includes $5.7 billion in border wall funding, sending the bill to the Senate.

The revised House spending bill to continue funding the federal government for the next two months has an added provision that funds $5.7 billion worth of border wall construction without any contingencies.

Rep. Steve Chabot begged DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday to import more low-skilled foreign workers to the United States.

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) told Breitbart News in exclusive interviews on Thursday that Democrats should be careful in a battle over wall funding because President Donald Trump “does not blink very often” in a fight.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that he continues to urge President Donald Trump to veto the spending bill if it does not contain border wall funding.

Insiders say that Congress won’t provide the $5 billion to build a wall on the U.S. southern border, but a triple-amputee military veteran and Purple Heart recipient has raised over $4 million in three days on the crowdfunding site Go Fund Me.

Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC), a member of the House Freedom Caucus, urged President Donald Trump to veto the short-term spending bill and said that the lack of wall funding in the bill serves as a “complete surrender.”

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says President Trump will not win re-election in 2020 if his central campaign promise of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is not honored.

The Senate passed a short-term spending bill on Wednesday night that would avoid a government shutdown as well as a fight over wall funding. 

While President Trump’s looks to minimal sources to continue funding more United States-Mexico border construction projects — mainly bollard-style fencing — Congress is hiding some of the most commonly proposals.

Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney is asking President Donald Trump to use his veto power to demand funds for his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The House Freedom Caucus and Chairman Mark Meadows (R-NC) delivered a series of fiery speeches Wednesday night, calling on President Donald Trump and Congress to fund his promised border wall; Meadows said they will back Trump if he vetoes the spending bill.

Brian Kolfage, a triple amputee and Purple Heart recipient, has raised more than $1 million to build a wall on the U.S. border.

If you were elected president, and your central campaign promise — repeated every day — was to build a wall, wouldn’t you have spent the entirety of your transition period working on getting it done? 

Wednesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh commented on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announcement of the deal that finances the government through New Year’s Day without funding for President Donald Trump‘s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

A Rasmussen Reports nationwide poll shows that one in three Republicans would be willing to pitch in to pay for a wall on the U.S. southern border with Mexico if Congress fails to give President Donald Trump the $5 billion he has asked Congress to approve for it.