WASHINGTON – Some people who tuned in to watch President Donald Trump’s proposal on Saturday to end the 28-day government shutdown took issue with…
WASHINGTON – Some people who tuned in to watch President Donald Trump’s proposal on Saturday to end the 28-day government shutdown took issue with one particular line of the 13-minute address.
The president proposed a compromise: The $5.7 billion to build a wall along the southern border for temporary protections for undocumented immigrants, including children. He called the proposal « a common-sense compromise both parties can embrace. »
« To physically secure our border, the plan includes $5.7 billion for a strategic deployment of physical barriers, or a wall, » Trump said. « This is not a 2,000-mile concrete structure from sea to sea. These are steel barriers in high-priority locations. »
Those at home took notice that Trump seemed to downplay the scope of his wall plan, which he has boasted about during campaign rallies. Many also noted the very public way Trump noted that the wall would not be made of concrete as he previously promised and wouldn’t extend the full length of the border.
« Not sea to sea, not paid for by Mexico, only steel slats.
