President Donald Trump boasted on Twitter early Saturday that there was “great support coming from all sides” for border security and his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Great support coming from all sides for Border Security (including Wall) on our very dangerous Southern Border. Teams negotiating this weekend! Washington Post and NBC reporting of events, including Fake sources, has been very inaccurate (to put it mildly)!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2019
However, that’s not the case.
Trump is refusing to end the partial government shutdown unless Democrats grant him federal funding for the wall that he originally told voters Mexico would pay for. Democratic lawmakers, including new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have pointedly said they do not endorse the wall idea.
But Trump followed up with another tweet in which he suggested how Democrats “could solve the Shutdown problem in a very short period of time.”
“All they have to do is approve REAL Border Security (including a Wall),” he wrote. “This would be so easy to do!” he added.
The Democrats could solve the Shutdown problem in a very short period of time. All they have to do is approve REAL Border Security (including a Wall), something which everyone, other than drug dealers, human traffickers and criminals, want very badly! This would be so easy to do!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2019