“Sen. Schumer, we’re not going to abandon the wall,” Graham said later Saturday, referring to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). “We’re going to build a wall, and to all those Americans who want us to abandon the wall and open up the border, that’s what this fight’s about.”
The president’s aides, in private, have half-heartedly tried to pin the blame on Democrats — despite their boss’ saying earlier this month in the Oval Office that he would be proud to shut down the government for border security, suggesting that the American people were with him on the issue.
Trump, who cast the southern border wall in political terms as a “total winner,” even as polls show that majorities of Americans don’t support the structure, is marching out senior administration officials to assert that he’s been “very clear” about his expectations for funding various “physical barriers.” “We are open to a lot of different options along those lines,” one of the officials said.
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