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January 22, 2019

Arguments Democrats should make about the border wall funding

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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Name: Ben Hoffman
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Hometown: Denver
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Member since: Sun Mar 27, 2016, 11:08 AM
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