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Someone sent me this it was too good not to... #TrumpShutdown #shutdown #trumpcaved

— Kingknoxy‏ @kingknoxy -  Jan 25, 2019

According to a survey by The Economist and market researcher YouGov in a poll conducted between Jan 12 and Jan 15.

• 21 percent of Americans reported to be personally affected by the government shutdown
• 46 percent of people said they knew someone who was personally affected 

• started on Dec. 22, 2018
• ended on Jan. 25, 2019 #NoWall

These 5 senators can single handedly reopen the government. Holler at them! #TrumpShutdown #NoWall 

Colorado @SenCoryGardner  Alaska @SenDanSullivan  Arizona @SenMcSallyAZ  Maine @SenatorCollins  Kansas @SenPatRoberts

— Chelsea Handler‏  @chelseahandler - Jan 9, 2019

MSNBC on Twitter

“WATCH: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers impassioned response to President Trump’s address: “The president should be really defending why we are funding [ICE] at all … right now, what we are seeing, is death.” https://t.co/4Al4GLWUvB”

twitter.com

“The one thing the president has not talked about is the fact he has systematically engaged in the violation of… human rights on our border. He has separated children from their families.”

“He talked about what happened about the day after Christmas. On the day of day of Christmas, a child died in ICE custody.”

“The president should be really defending why we are funding such an agency at all, because right now, what we are seeing is death. Right now what we are seeing is the violation of human rights.”

“Family’s are being kept in ????? which are basically Freezing Boxes that no person should be maintained in”

“He’s trying to restrict every form of legal form of immigration there is in the United States”

The Border Wall: How a Potent Symbol Is Now Boxing Trump In

What started out as a memory trick for an undisciplined candidate has become the central priority of the Trump presidency, even as some immigration hard-liners do not view it as a top goal.

www.nytimes.com

“How do we get him to continue to talk about immigration?” Sam Nunberg, one of Mr. Trump’s early political advisers, recalled telling Roger J. Stone Jr., another adviser. “We’re going to get him to talk about he’s going to build a wall.” 

In transforming the wall into a powerful emblem of his anti-immigration message, Mr. Trump has made the proposal politically untouchable for Democrats, who have steadfastly refused to fund it, complicating the chances of any compromise.

“As a messaging strategy, it was pretty successful,” Mr. Krikorian said. “The problem is, you got elected; now what do you do? Having made it his signature issue, Trump handed the Democrats a weapon against him.”

“This is not a wall between Mexico and the United States that the president is creating here; it’s a wall between reality and his constituents, his supporters.”, Speaker Nancy Pelosi

While most Republicans refuse to say so publicly for fear of angering Mr. Trump, many share the view that the wall is only a piece — and nowhere near the most important one — of a broader set of actions needed to overhaul the immigration system, including cuts to legal immigration, tighter standards for granting asylum and better enforcement.

“The fence is an easy thing to sell politically,” Mr. Mulvaney said then. “It’s an easy thing for someone who doesn’t follow the issue very closely to say, ‘Oh, well, that will just solve everything, build the fence.’ The fence doesn’t solve the problem.”

#TrumpResign #TrumpShutdown 

OBAMA GOT A HIGHWAY AND TRUMP CAN'T GET A STREET SIGN.

— #FBR #theresistance #impeach45 #resist @45RAPEDKATIE

Amazing the #MAGA still doesn't see that everything @Realdonaldtrump is a lie #LiarInChief

— Stop Trump  🍷‏ @StopTrump2020 -  Aug 1, 2018

• During his campaign, Trump initially said he could build a wall for $4 billion. Then it became $6 billion to $7 billion.
• January 2017, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said the wall would be $12 billion to $15 billion
• February 2017, a leaked report from the Department of Homeland Security put it much higher, at $21.6 billion.
• April 2017, Trump said it would be $10 billion or less. 
• March 2018, Trump wanted $25 BILLION for the wall. Congress approved $1.6 Billion for a FENCE.