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Check this out... Pelosi cannot stop the President from showing up and making a speech; It's his right. However, she controls everything else - such as the cameras and the lights. She can simply declare the "House is not in session" and that's that.
Don't think she can do it? Seems she did it once before. "In 2008, during her first term as speaker, Pelosi adjourned without allowing a vote Republicans wanted related to offshore drilling, shut off the lights, and cut off the microphones to block Republicans from complaining about it. Republicans refused to leave the floor and kept on talking anyway."
Whatever. Trump is playing games with people's lives at this point, and is causing serious, long term damage to our national security. There is no sudden crisis at the Southern Border; Illegal immigration is way down. The vast majority of people (and drugs) come in via ports of entry, and the $5 billion he wants is only a fraction of the true cost. He needs to get the government started now.
The truth is Trump wants a wall and he damn well knows this is his last and only chance to get it. He is willing to shutdown the United States government to keep a campaign promise that most Americans oppose.
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“The choice is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal and crazy.”
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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