continual vacilation, impulsive action, really threatens the security of american families economically and their first call, our national security. tell me, sir, the fact that the house passed the resolution that allowed for the $5 billion spending on border security, slash, the wall for the president, now it has to be brought back and we had $1.6 billion to $5 billion, where do you see this ending ultimately? i think it is very unclear. i think what we can be sure of is it will not end at the earliest until near the end of this next week, which is so unfortunate for the hundreds of thousands of federal employees and their families who are directly affected. and by others who might want to take advantage of those federal services. how our country is more secure when we deny a paycheck to a border patrolman or woman is
year, mr. president, the democratics offered $25 billion for physical barriers in his negotiations to the president. five times, five times what the white house is reasonably requesting right now. and that was just earlier this year. republicans in the house and in the senate believe the house s provision for $5 billion and border funding, plus additional disaster funding was completely reasonable. i was glad to vote to advance to legislation yesterday. my colleagues and i are proud to stand with the american people on this subject for the safety of american families and the health and security of our communities. but this time, this time democrats have rejected that reasonable request. they have refused to meet president trump halfway and provide even one fifth, one
but if not, on january 3rd, after we put in a new and much improved congress and some of these republican enablers have been sent home thanks to voters across america we need to send back to the president the same resolution that the senate has already approved. do you think it would be in the president s best interests in terms of getting what he specifically campaigned on, what he specifically wants here if he were to make a deal between now and january 3rd? because come january 3rd it is going to be even more difficult to get something done? i think that s true. he has more republican enablers now than he will have on january the 3rd. there will still be a number there, particularly in the senate. at some point they have to put country first and say the security of our families and our future and the operations of our government are more important than their party. and i believe we will see a time in coming months, perhaps after the mueller report, when some republicans will put
democrats support security. certainly we are as concerned about keeping american families safe as anyone you about we don t support wasting money on a wall through the desert. i don t see significant change in that. i think there will be opposition from people in the house to any major change in that. congressman, you heard jeff bennett talking about the tweet the president just put out. he speaks about the lunch that will be happening with a number of people, he says a very large group. he says concerning border security. he neglected to say the word wall . that something that democrats could come on board with, with saying we are going to provide this kind of money for border curt but not necessarily to a monolithic looking concrete structure or to the slabs or however the president is envisioning at this point. could that be something that would support a compromise? i don t think the language
no procedural votes, no test votes, just a meaningful vote on a diplomat agreement whenever that is reached. and, et cetera my hope that it is reached sooner rather than later. it is no mystery why securing our nation s borders is such a major priority for republicans here in the senate. and republicans over in the house. and for president trump. any look at the plain facts leads to one simple conclusion. the crisis of security at our southern border is real. is real. over the past year, customs and border protections records of apprehensions and interdictions at our southern border are literally, mr. president, staggering.