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In a Christmas Day press conference, Trump said many federal workers have told him to hold out for wall funding, though the President didn't provide names or positions of those workers.
Be that as it may, the fact of the matter is that regardless of what those alleged federal workers have told Trump, most people don't support building a wall on the US-Mexico border.
Subsequent to the above polls, Trump has remarked, "Remember the Caravans? Well, they didn't get through."
"But many of those workers have said to me and communicated, stay out until you get the funding for the wall. These federal workers want the wall. The only one that doesn't want the wall are the Democrats, because they don't mind open borders, but open borders mean massive amounts of crime."
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I have no idea of who those federal workers are, and Trump, as usual, provided no credible/verifiable reference point, but if I had to wager money, I'd bet that all of them are people whom he appointed to the WH staff and/or other department/agency.(Source)
Be that as it may, the fact of the matter is that regardless of what those alleged federal workers have told Trump, most people don't support building a wall on the US-Mexico border.
- Jan 2017 - Pew Research
- June 2018 - Gallup
- 57% oppose expanding the construction of walls along the nation's Southern border
- 41% favor expanding construction of walls along U.S.-Mexico border
- Nov 2018 -- Morning Consult
- 55% of registered voters, including 34% of Republicans, say increased wall funding isn’t worth a shutdown.
- 47% plurality also said passing a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s job isn’t worth shutting down the government.
- Dec 2018 -- FiveThirtyEight (reporting on other organizations' data collection) -- The public's approbation for the wall hasn't changed much
- PBS/Marist (Dec 2018)
- 57% of Americans think Trump should “compromise on the border wall to prevent gridlock”
- 36% think he shouldn’t compromise even if that means a government shutdown.
- 30% of respondents who identify as Trump supporters said he should compromise on the wall
- CBS (March 2018)
- 60% oppose building a US-Mexico border wall
- CBS (Nov 2018)
- 28% of those who favored the wall didn't believe that it warrants a partial government shutdown
- PBS/Marist (Dec 2018)
Subsequent to the above polls, Trump has remarked, "Remember the Caravans? Well, they didn't get through."
- Wonder of wonders! How many thousand people didn't illegally enter the US even though Trump's wall hasn't been built?
The elementary rules of logic: that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
-- Christopher Hitchens
-- Christopher Hitchens