House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a televised address on Tuesday night that President Donald Trump was “manufacturing a crisis” over his fight to get $5.7 billion in border security funding.
Pelosi and Schumer rebutted President Trump’s televised address on Tuesday night, contending that President Trump has harmed thousands of Americans with his government shutdown. The Democrat leaders said that a border wall along the southern border is both “expensive” and “ineffective.”
Pelosi said in reaction to Trump’s speech, “Sadly, much of what we heard from President Trump during this senseless shutdown has been misinformation and even malice.”
Pelosi said that Trump was “manufacturing a crisis” with the government shutdown.
Pelosi continued:
The fact is, on the very first day of this Congress, House Democrats passed Senate Republican’s legislation to reopen government and fund smart, effective, border security solutions, but the president has rejected these bipartisan bills which would reopen government over his obsession, forcing American taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on an expensive and ineffective wall. A wall he always promised Mexico would pay for. The fact is the president has chosen to hold hostage critical services for the health, safety, and well being of the American people. And withhold the paychecks of 800,000 innocent workers across the nation, many of them veterans.
The fact is, the women and children at the border are not a security threat. They are a humanitarian challenge, a challenge that President Trump’s own cruel and counterproductive policies have only deepened. And the fact is, President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage.
Sen. Schumer said:
My fellow Americans we address you tonight for one reason only: the President of the United States, having failed to get Mexico to pay for an ineffective border wall and unable to convince Congress or the American people to foot the bill, has shut down the government.
The New York Democrat said that Trump was “hurting millions of Americans,” whom he treated as “leverage.”
“Tonight and throughout this debate and throughout his presidency, President Trump has appealed to fear, not facts,” Schumer added. “Division, not unity.”
The leading Senate Democrat suggested that Democrats want border security. However, they merely differ with Trump on how to best deal with border security.
Schumer said, “Make no mistake, Democrats and the president both want stronger border security. However, we sharply disagree with the president about the most effective way to do it.”
“We can secure our border without an ineffective, expensive wall. And we can welcome legal immigrants, refugees, without compromising safety and security,” Schumer added. “A symbol of America should be the Statue of Liberty, not a 30-foot wall.”
“Mr. President, re-open the government, and we can work to resolve the differences over border security, but end this shutdown now,” Schumer concluded.
With the history of Democrats themselves having at one point supported some form of border security, do you think President Trump is “manufacturing” a crisis?
source: breitbart.com
My comment has nothing to do with the wall what I would like to know is how did two Muslims get into Congress without putting their hands on the Bible? President Trump is right about the wall.
I think the Democrats will do any and all things to thwart President Trump. They intensely fislike him and it isn’t the wall. It’s their disdain for him because he won the 2016 election. They don’t care that the people spoke when they elected him.
America is and has always been for security of it’s people. The times again change and for 5.7 billion expenditure we the people send a message to all. We will secure and protect all of our people.
The proposed expense is a bargan even for one American life. Stop this political nonsence and build the wall!!!
There is no “National Emergency “. This is a false statement. As a Reagan Republican, it makes me worry to see the party following the lead of our leader. He is misrepresenting the facts and attempting to spend billions of unnecessary dollars that could be used in many other areas. Let’s get our party on the right track. Get our government open for business and let’s not resort to bottom feeder tactics. We need to work within the reasonable framework of our democratic government. We are not an authoritarian state.
Trump doesn’t seem to care about the most important part of his promise when it comes to this “ineffective and expensive” wall. That is that Mexico is gonna pay for it… There is nothing indicated by Mexico that they are going to pay for it. Trump never stated an alternative should be not be able to get Mexico to pay for it. There are more important things to worry about than a stupid wall that we should not be forced to pay for. So Trump should stop feeding his ego and come to a compromise now..
I stand with our President. Hold tough.
The demos are nothing but a bunch of little kids crying because they cannot get there own way! They think they know everything but they do not! That Pelosi —– and Shcumer need to go. I really don’t know what is wrong with California. Just a liberal state with a bunch of weirdos>
Schumer & Pelosi are morons. President Trump has been a great President . The border wall is to protect our country.
Trump is a chump 99 per cent certain.
Yes, the president is manufacturing a crisis and hurting a lot of people in the corse.
Well as of today there is another group of migrants coming to invade our country. SO you think this is a manufactured crisis? Why don’t the Democrats pay attention to what the EXPERTS at the border are saying. They are there every day not these clowns on the hill who think they know more than anyone. Give the American people the dates that Pelosi and Schumer went to the border and talked with experts. I doubt either of them would know the first thing about securing the border. If they listened to the experts, they want layered security but that INCLUDES a barrier in certain places. The Democrats can’t even compromise on 200 miles of barrier . They are the security threat to America. They don’t want border security, they want to continue to hate Trump. Even California, their favorite state for illegals, is starting to feel the results of illegal immigrants. The schools are over whelmed, and now tax paying citizens have to pay for drinking water. I’ll bet the illegals drink the water for free like everything else they get there. Stop the manufactured crisis crap and do your job.
Just go to the border and spend a week and see for your self what it’s like. Watch the caravans of all the illegals coming and jumping the border. IF ONE KILLER GETS ACROSS THE BORDER AND KILLS ONE AMERICAN AND THE WALL WOULD HAVE PREVENTED IT THE WALL SAVED AN AMERICAN. It was worth it.
Trump has brought this all on and your all playing games about who your going to blame it on. First McConnell needs
to be locked up along with Trump and Pence , three lying backstabbing mouses that they are. They don’t give one
rats ass about the American people, the workers the Veterans the Children and Handicapped.
They will burn in hell. the thieves.
hell no. you lying ass democrats are about to get their scum sucking asses kicked off the planet.