Schumer, Pelosi Joint Statement on the President’s Tuesday Evening Address
Washington,
D.C. – Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released this joint statement on the President’s plans for
a televised address Tuesday evening:
“The
facts are clear: President Trump has the power to stop hurting the country by
re-opening the government and ending the Trump Shutdown.
“Democrats
and an increasing number of Republicans in Congress have repeatedly urged the
President and Leader McConnell to end the Trump Shutdown and re-open the
government while Congress debates the President’s expensive and ineffective
wall. Unfortunately, President Trump keeps rejecting the bipartisan
House-passed bills, which have already received strong bipartisan support in
the Senate, to re-open the government. Instead, he is still demanding
that American taxpayers pay at least $5.7 billion for his wall, which can’t
pass either chamber of Congress and of course Mexico is not paying for.
“Now
that the television networks have decided to air the President’s address, which
if his past statements are any indication will be full of malice and
misinformation, Democrats must immediately be given equal airtime.
“On
Day One of the new Congress, the House passed bipartisan legislation that
honors our responsibility to protect the American people with funding for
smart, effective border security solutions – just not the President’s wasteful
and ineffective wall.”
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