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benpollard

(261 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:41 AM Jan 2019

Arguments Democrats should make about the border wall funding [View all]

Nancy Pelosi needs to stop trying to appeal to people's emotions and make strictly logical arguments about border wall funding.

* We'll fund the wall only after Trump makes his argument in person to Congress on why we need the wall.
* We'll fund the wall only after Trump produces studies showing that spending $5.7 billion on a wall will be effective. * Currently, he just wants a slush fund that he can spend as he sees fit. How do we know that some of that money won't go in his pocket?
* We can't fund any of Trump's pet projects while he is under investigation for conspiring with Russia to steal the election.
* There is too much corruption in the Trump administration to just hand over all that money.
* No president has ever been just handed over such a large amount of money with no oversight on how it will be spent.

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