Rep. Lloyd SmuckerVerified account

As you know very well, the House already passed the bill that the Senate passed unanimously in December. Call Pat Toomey and demand a vote. Only Republicans can reopen the government. Only Republicans are keeping it closed.

The Senate voted, 100-0, on a funding bill which the “president” indicated he would sign. Then he reneged because people on TV and radio told him to. How will you feel when a President Kamala Harris bases her policy decisions on what she hears on Chapo Traphouse?

This is disingenuous and you know it. Negotiation does not mean, "just give me what I want" -- the GOP was offered FAR more for the silly border wall a while back. You turned it down cause you refused to negotiate. Now it's too late. Grow up, GOP. Open the gov.

And Mexico should be on the other side of the table. Why don’t you open the government and negotiate with Mexico over wall funding. Your dear leader said they would pay.

Border security and a border wall are two different subjects.

They've been trying. There is a bill that the Senate previously passed, but now refuse to take up again. Your party is the one asking for more. Your party is the one holding this up. Your party is the one that is not negotiating.

This is a deeply unserious Op-Ed written by a deeply unserious man (or more likely his staff) and @ydrcom should not have published it w/o fact checking. As per @pewresearch, the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States is lower than at any time since 2004.

you're unwilling to open the government unless the apprentice guy gets a giant wall to compensate for his impotent, dried-apricot chode. that's not good-faith negotiating. take a seat, lloyd.