Standing in the rain outside the White House on Friday morning, press secretary Sarah Sanders talked with Fox News about President Trump’s push for a wall on the border with Mexico. Asked by a “Fox & Friends” host whether the Senate should end the filibuster in order to pass legislation with a flat majority that would approve $5 billion to fund the wall, Sanders said it should.
“This is such an important issue, and it’s something that all of America wants to see happen,” Sanders said. “And, frankly, Americans want to be protected. . . . We can’t be a sovereign country if we don’t have borders and we don’t have protection of American citizens.”
Standard rhetoric except for Sanders’s telling assertion that “all of America wants to see happen.”
That’s simply not true. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post
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