Only Trump’s cult wants the wall. It’s a phony crisis.
If the GOP wants a wall so badly, they can try to propose and pass a bill like anybody else.
Instead, they are seizing gov operations + innocent people’s pay until they get what they want.
This is called hostage-taking. And no one can compromise or negotiate with that. https://t.co/utYLL1k8m9
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 6, 2019
Ed Zarenski has spent 30 years estimating construction projects. A reality check here about the steel "wall" –> https://t.co/xG0u7DCUp8
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 6, 2019
I wonder if someone would get in trouble with Twitter if they suggested building the wall out of dead Republicans. Asking for a friend.
— Unko Tim (@timmyturmoil) January 7, 2019
I wonder if someone would get in trouble with Twitter if they suggested building the wall out of dead Republicans. Asking for a friend.
— Unko Tim (@timmyturmoil) January 7, 2019
Border wall funding fight is also a fight about basic facts https://t.co/tBw5r1ZpRC via @brianstelter
— Fuego (@NiemanLabFuego) January 7, 2019
"Yes, he can do it in part…on government property," says law professor @steve_vladeck on whether Trump can declare a national emergency to build a border wall.
"A majority of the property along the US/Mexico border is, in fact, private property." https://t.co/jRqHheJub5 pic.twitter.com/JjwUzwNx47
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) January 7, 2019
Trump lied this week that he never said he was going to build a concrete wall, just that he'd build a wall. Found this clip of him telling a little boy in 2015, "I'll tell you what it's going to made of: it's going to be made of hardened concrete." https://t.co/WFc44T1rJc
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 7, 2019
My thought exactly: https://t.co/pqv62hilEf
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 7, 2019
When I have done reporting trips to the border, I have been struck by how little enthusiasm I have found for a wall on the part of landowners and others who live there. Worth revisiting how much disruption we are talking about (1/2): https://t.co/yIzk56jneb via @TexasTribune
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 8, 2019
I’ve been on the Intelligence Committee for over 10 years. On terrorism and other threats, I’ve received more briefings from FBI, CIA, and DHS than I could count.
How many times have any of them said we need a wall across the southern border?
Zero.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) January 8, 2019
There are serious – if not dispositive – arguments that Trump could invoke emergency powers to build his wall. It would be a big court battle, but this may be another place where executive power has been held in check by norms, not bright-line rules. https://t.co/XBzuaZZgbl
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) January 7, 2019
Sad! 