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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congress controls the purse strings. The House is Democrat majority. Democrats own this just as much as Republicans.

The president doesn't control the purse strings.

Maybe a refresher on 3rd grade civics are in order for some of you[/quote]

GOP held the purse strings for 2 years. If they cared so much they should have done something.

Why complain about Ds when your own party DGAF? 
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The crisis wasn't 2 years ago. It's now after building for months and officials warning congress this would happen[/quote]

It was a “crisis” a year ago when the GOP still had the house and the senate. 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/crisis-border-numbers/

[i]June 20, 2018

WHAT WAS SAID
“[b]What the president reiterated again yesterday, and he has said every day from when he sought this office, is we have a crisis of illegal immigration.[/b]”
— Vice President Mike Pence, meeting with members of Congress on Wednesday.

“These smugglers know these rules and regulations better than the people that drew them. As a result, there’s been a 325 percent increase in minors, and a 435 percent increase in the smuggling or attempted smuggling of families and minors into our country.”
— President Trump, speaking to the National Federation of Independent Businesses on Tuesday.

“In the last three months we've seen illegal immigration on our southern border exceed 50,000 people each month. Multiples over each month last year.”  
— Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, at a news conference on Monday.[/i]
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/fact-check-trump-border-crossings-declining-.html[/quote]

The crisis at he border obviously gotten worse than last year. Democrats blocked funding on it last year as well so I don't know how that makes your point stronger. Democrats blocked the 2017 and 2018 bills to address this:

[quote]While Schumer said Democrats would be "happy" to debate the border wall, he predicted it couldn't get the 60 votes needed to clear the Senate.

"I think if they brought it up in regular order it would not pass, it wouldn't come close to passing," he added.

Republicans could clear legislation funding the wall through the House without Democratic help, but they would need the support of at least eight Democrats in the Senate to overcome a likely filibuster. [/quote]
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/331415-schumer-trumps-border-wall-cant-pass-senate

Oh and this lovely article where democrats still denied there was an issue even as things got worse:

[quote]Earlier this year, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused Trump of exaggerating problems at the border to stoke fear among Americans and distract from the turmoil of his own administration.

After Trump issued an Oval Office address to the nation on Jan. 8 proclaiming the border situation a “crisis of the heart and a crisis of the soul,” Schumer and Pelosi gave a side-by-side rebuttal.

“This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration,” Schumer said in the midst of a 35-day government shutdown sparked by a partisan disagreement over funding border barriers.[/quote]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/449214-dems-make-u-turn-on-calling-border-a-manufactured-crisis
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He’s been calling it a “crisis” for years. If it was such a “crisis” then Trump should have taken the $25B offered last March. Or brought it to a vote when the gop had control.

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Once again for those who are slow - the Dems didn't offer 25B. The offered the PROMISE of 25B. Had they offered cold, hard cash, he was prepared to take it. [/quote]

The PP above also must have reading comprehension issues since in 2017/2018 funding bills the Republican house was ready to pass it but the Senate needed 8 democrats to pass border security funding and Chuck said it wouldn't happen. All this gotcha business of how the Republicans didn't pass immigration sounds so foolish since most of these clowns don't appear to know the basics of how our government works.[/quote]

try again

https://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2019/jan/15/tim-kaine/tim-kaine-mostly-accurate-about-trump-nixing-25-bi/

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“$25 billion over 10 years in border security done the right way”

The promise of 25 billion. Just like I said[/quote]

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