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White House wants $7 billion more for DHS to fund wall

Illinois Democratic Sen. Richard J. Durbin couldn’t give a timetable on when the government would open back up: “I can’t say that we’re close because the president’s made it clear he doesn’t care.” Credit: Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call file photo

More than half of the request is for a ‘steel barrier’ along the southwest border

The White House formally asked lawmakers Sunday to provide an additional $7 billion beyond what Senate appropriators proposed in their bipartisan Homeland Security spending bill last year, with more than half earmarked for a “steel barrier” along the southwest border.

The request, outlined in a letter from Acting Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, doesn’t seem likely to lead to an immediate breakthrough in reopening large portions of the federal government that have been closed since Dec. 22.

At $5.7 billion for border barriers, or $4.1 billion more than the Senate’s fiscal 2019 bill, President Donald Trump proposes more than he’d requested earlier for a concrete wall. And the proposal reiterates some of Trump’s earlier requests rejected by Senate appropriators, including nearly $800 million to support 52,000 detention beds for immigrant detainees.

View the complete January 7 article by David Lerman and Kellie Mejdrich on The Roll Call website here.

Trump administration flocks to Fox to recycle discredited statistic about terrorists crossing the southern border

The Trump administration drew media criticism in February for a misleading claim that 10 terrorists were intercepted crossing the U.S.-Mexico border each day in 2017. The claim has now resurfaced as “almost 4,000 terrorists” throughout 2018. It is still misleading.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders appeared on the January 4 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends to defend President Donald Trump’s stance on the ongoing government shutdown. She told the hosts that a border wall is needed because “last year alone, there were nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists” arrested along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Trump’s idea to declare national emergency raises legality questions B

Lawmakers in both parties on Sunday rejected the prospect of President Trump solving the ongoing budget impasse by skirting Congress to declare a “national emergency,” with several Democrats raising doubts over the legality of the idea.

“I don’t know what he’s basing this on, but he’s faced so many lawsuits when he ignores the law and ignores tradition and precedent, and just goes forward without any concern,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” addressing Trump’s threat to declare a national emergency in order to build a border wall.

“He’ll face a challenge, I’m sure if he oversteps what the law requires when it comes to his responsibility as commander in chief,” Durbin added.

View the complete January 6 article by Brett Samuels on The Hill website here.

Trump claims support from past presidents for the wall: Clinton, Bush and Obama beg to differ

Since taking office, President Donald Trump has had little contact with past presidents, even his Republican predecessors. Credit: Mark Wilson, Getty Images

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Friday that past presidents have privately confided to him that they regret not building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

But at least three of the four living U.S. presidents — Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama — did no such thing.

Asked if Clinton told Trump that he should have built a border wall, Clinton spokesman Angel Ureña said, “He did not. In fact, they’ve not talked since the inauguration.”

View the complete January 4 article by Andrew Restuccia on the Politico website here.

Want to Know More About: The Trump-Pence Misstatements on the Fake Border Crisis

Hallie Jackson: “In That Interview, The Vice President Repeated That Claim That Has Been Debunked As Misleading About The Number Of Suspected Terrorists Or Immigrants Coming Across The Southern Border.” [Today, NBC, 1/8/19; VIDEO]

Joe Scarborough: “Willie, From Six To Thousands. Mike Pence, The Vice President, Lying To The Government Again. You Have The Head Of The Department Of The Homeland Security Lying About Thousands, The President Of The United States Lying About Thousands.” JOE SCARBOROUGH: “Willie, from six to thousands. Mike pence, the vice president, lying to the government again. You have the head of the department of the homeland security lying about thousands, the president of the united States lying about thousands, you have Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the president’s spokesperson, lying about it. And they’re all doing this, just like that they lied about the caravan and the gang members flooding across the southern border, all to justify this government shutdown and to justify the president going on tonight, making up an emergency so he can build his wall along the southern border? It’s outrageous.” [Morning Joe, MSNBC, 1/8/19; VIDEO]

Willie Geist: “We’ve Heard From The President, Vice President, Homeland Security, Sarah Sanders All On TV As Terrorists Are Streaming Across The Southern Border And If We Don’t Build A Wall, That Are Going To Come To America And Kill Us. That Is Not Happening.” WILLIE GEIST: “It is, Joe. And the quote yesterday, there’s a humanitarian and national security crisis on our southern border. Let’s be as clear as we possibly can be. There is no national security crisis at the border. Richard Haas, what you have here, the argument distilled down, we’ve heard from the president, vice president, homeland security, Sarah Sanders all on TV as terrorists are streaming across the southern border and if we don’t build a wall, that are going to come to America and kill us. That is not happening. The numbers bear it out, the evidence bears it out and this is all so president trump can deliver on chants he initiate during his rallies ‘build that wall’ during his presidential campaign. It’s theater and a show tonight.” [Morning Joe, MSNBC, 1/8/19; VIDEO]