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Home Front: Politix
Senate Democrats ask Trump to shift wall money to gun measures
2019-08-15
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two senior Senate Democrats on Wednesday asked President Donald Trump to withdraw his $5 billion request for border wall funding and use the money on initiatives to combat gun violence in the aftermath of back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.

In a letter, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Patrick Leahy informed Trump that he does not have enough support in Congress for his wall funding request to be included in the federal budget for fiscal year 2020, which begins on Oct. 1.

"Instead, we urge you to support spending funds you have requested for the border wall, on other pressing needs such as proven initiatives that will address the threats of gun violence and white supremacist extremism in America," wrote Schumer and Leahy, who is the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee that oversees government outlays.

The White House had no immediate comment.

Posted by:Besoeker

#16  ...Reagan wasn't a New Yorker. Its nothing personal, its business. Queue music.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-08-15 20:44  

#15  #8 They fight him tooth and nail on EVERYTHING, then have the nerve too ask him too direct funds for what he wants too do too their bullshit! FOAD

I mean, it's worked with other Republicans - even Reagan - so it's worth a shot.
Posted by: charger   2019-08-15 20:07  

#14  Trump: lolgf
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2019-08-15 15:14  

#13  ^^^^ street drug prices go up.
Posted by: chris   2019-08-15 14:41  

#12  Build the wall. Stem the flow of drugs into the country.

Where's the graft in that?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-08-15 11:13  

#11  Just make employing an illegal a hate crime (against African American who'd had that job otherwise).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-08-15 10:37  

#10  it would be easier too build one on the Mexican border
Posted by: chris   2019-08-15 10:17  

#9  Build a wall around places ignoring federal law?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-08-15 09:33  

#8  They fight him tooth and nail on EVERYTHING, then have the nerve too ask him too direct funds for what he wants too do too their bullshit! FOAD
Posted by: chris   2019-08-15 09:30  

#7  How about we pull all federal funds to sanctuary cities and use that for building the wall?
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-08-15 08:47  

#6  Soon they will ask for their sanctuary cities funding. I would actually call them the left's internment camps.
Posted by: Dale   2019-08-15 08:12  

#5  Much of the human and narcotics trafficking come in from Mexico. Tighten up the border, build a strong wall and crime in the U.S. ought to decline as well as the number of crime-related shootouts. Firearms are often used in violent crimes, for example, the recent shootout between police and the drug dealer in Philadelphia. Build the wall. Stem the flow of drugs into the country.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-08-15 07:33  

#4  hhhmmmm....you mean like giving every draft registered male American citizen his own M16 or M4 and 200 rounds of ammo?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-08-15 07:28  

#3  on other pressing needs such as proven initiatives

Except they aren't proven.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-08-15 07:00  

#2  No $ for a wall? Then we'll just have to go with that 1/4 mile wide minefield.
Posted by: Raj   2019-08-15 06:58  

#1  Could fund free defence classes for new gun owners I suppose.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-08-15 06:08  

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