“In 2019, the federal government will spend a
whopping $4.407 trillion. Yet
Congress and the president are shutting down the government in a dispute
between the $1.3 billion the
Democrats have approved for border security and the $5.7 billion the
president is demanding — the difference being precisely 0.0998 percent of the
total federal budget. In Washington, that is considered a rounding error.
Worse, Democrats are doing it over a border wall
strikingly similar to one that they almost unanimously supported just five
years ago…
…If Democrats think they have Trump cornered, then
squeeze him and try get a lot out of him. But don’t refuse to negotiate and
tell us the wall is an “immorality” — because their voting history shows they
don’t believe that.” – Marc Thiessen. Full piece at…
