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Sarah Sanders: Valuing life is 'what sets America apart from every other country' [View all]
Source: Washington Post
Sarah Sanders: Valuing life is ‘what sets America apart from every other country’
By Philip Bump
January 6 at 1:16 PM
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Sanders appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” where Wallace pressed her on the ongoing government shutdown. Normally, the most newsworthy part of the conversation would have been Wallace’s successful prosecution of Sanders’s assertions about the threat posed by terrorists crossing the U.S. border with Mexico. But Sanders, perhaps because she’s out of practice in dealing with challenging reporters — given the recent infrequency of White House news briefings — made another comment that deserves some attention.
As the shutdown continues, Wallace pointed out to Sanders that there would be continuing and accelerating negative effects for those government workers who aren’t being paid. Does President Trump think this is worth the border wall fight? Wallace asked.
“The president certainly doesn’t want any of those things to happen,” Sanders replied, adding that Trump also didn’t want to have to call widows of police officers killed by immigrants who are in the country illegally, as he did last week.
“This shouldn’t happen in this country, particularly when we have things that we know can help prevent it,” Sanders said. “Every life — that’s what sets America apart from every other country; we value life. That is what makes us unique.”
This argument for American exceptionalism is obviously remarkable. It’s also selective; there have been any number of other lamentable deaths in the United States that the administration has not determined to warrant the sort of attention that Trump is granting to the wall.
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By Philip Bump
January 6 at 1:16 PM
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Sanders appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” where Wallace pressed her on the ongoing government shutdown. Normally, the most newsworthy part of the conversation would have been Wallace’s successful prosecution of Sanders’s assertions about the threat posed by terrorists crossing the U.S. border with Mexico. But Sanders, perhaps because she’s out of practice in dealing with challenging reporters — given the recent infrequency of White House news briefings — made another comment that deserves some attention.
As the shutdown continues, Wallace pointed out to Sanders that there would be continuing and accelerating negative effects for those government workers who aren’t being paid. Does President Trump think this is worth the border wall fight? Wallace asked.
“The president certainly doesn’t want any of those things to happen,” Sanders replied, adding that Trump also didn’t want to have to call widows of police officers killed by immigrants who are in the country illegally, as he did last week.
“This shouldn’t happen in this country, particularly when we have things that we know can help prevent it,” Sanders said. “Every life — that’s what sets America apart from every other country; we value life. That is what makes us unique.”
This argument for American exceptionalism is obviously remarkable. It’s also selective; there have been any number of other lamentable deaths in the United States that the administration has not determined to warrant the sort of attention that Trump is granting to the wall.
Link to tweet
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/06/sarah-sanders-valuing-life-is-what-sets-america-apart-every-other-country/
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