I would normally enjoy him getting his ass handed to him by Pelosi but he caused a lot of needless pain and suffering with this shutdown. What an awful man.
Respectfully, Pelosi and Schumer are the ones who funded about 120 miles of border fence while Obama was president, and now hypocritically oppose funding border security Trump is fighting for.
The $5.7 billion is 1/8th of 1% of the annual federal budget, a tiny fraction of annual spending. As one example, the budget gives Ivy League universities $100 billion a year in federal subsidies that they don't even use, mostly put in bank accounts growing interest for Universities that are already rolling in cash with huge tuition fees.
And at least Trump is holding out for principle, for something the nation truly needs, to secure its borders. The "awful" men and women are the Democrats who deprived 800,000 employees of wages for 35 days, for no other reason than to spite Trump.
And what's truly awful is the women and children who are sexually abused, killed, and otherwise victimized by the drug cartels human trafficking the Democrats enable. Even more so, the hundreds of thousands of crimes annually
by illegals inflicted on U.S. citizens, by people who should never have been here in the first place. The Democrats and their obstruction, and their sanctuary cities, are the architects of this.
Trump may have lost this battle. Or it could be looked at as a tactical retreat, to give the Dems enough rope to hang themselves in the next 3 weeks. I would argue that Trump is the one with more sympathy for federal employees than Schumer and Pelosi, since he was willing to end the shutdown for their benefit, and Pelosi was not.
The federal employees
were inconvenienced. People like
Kate Steinle and her family (killed by a Mexican illegal previously deported 5 times, who came back yet again, defiantly, with laughing contempt for our laws) have experienced a more
permanent loss. And as Trump said when he announced the end of the shutdown, many border guards and TSA who were working without pay, actually encouraged Trump to continue the shutdown, because despite their circumstances they passionately believe in the importance of securing the border that Trump is fighting for.
"Awful" is a word I reserve for Pelosi, who refused to see a woman whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant because of Pelosi's policy. She wanted Pelosi to see the ashes of her son.
Pelosi refused to see her!A border guard less than a week ago said Border Patrol currently captures about 2,000 illegals a day (and they only catch about 50% of those who cross the border.) Amnesty International and other human rights groups estimate 60 to 80% of the women and children crossing are sexually abused. A situation Trump would stop, that Pelosi enables. Now
that is "awful".
