House Passes 5.7 Billion For The Wall

Ok guys, there is A LOT going on here.

According to Fox News:

The House of Representatives Thursday approved a bill that would fund most of the federal government through early February — and provides $5.7 billion for President Trump’s long-promised border wall, increasing the chances of a partial government shutdown later this week.

Eight Republicans joined all 177 voting Democrats to oppose the measure, which passed 217-185. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it is certain to fall short of the 60 votes needed for passage since the chamber’s 49 Democrats are against funding the wall. That, in turn, makes it more likely that parts of the federal government, including nine of 15 Cabinet-level departments and dozens of agencies, will cease operations at midnight Friday.

This vote comes mere hours after Trump told House GOP leaders that he would NOT enact a Senate-passed package that has NO money for the wall.

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, whose leaders had pushed the hardest for Trump to stand his ground on the wall issue, said in a statement: “Republicans in Congress have continually told the American people that we would fight for wall funding, and today the House of Representatives took its first step toward fulfilling that promise. The Senate must follow our lead. It’s time we do what we said and work with President Trump and the American people to secure our borders.”

Trump released a video asserting he’s “fighting very hard for border security.”

Democrats, it is time to come together and put the SAFETY of the AMERICAN PEOPLE before POLITICS. Border security must become a #1 priority! pic.twitter.com/Wck6UpQGil

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2018

“We need the wall. The Democrats know it, everybody knows it,” Trump said. “It’s only a game when they say, ‘You don’t need the wall.’ … They want to try and do anything possible to hurt us because of the fact it’s politics. I understand that. I don’t even hold it against them, except you should always put your country first and they’re not doing that.”

“Watch what happens,” Trump said in concluding his statement.