claim: "there have even been republican congressmen who have said, ‘if you give us more money we don't know where we would even put additional border patrol agents.’ "
author: craig melvin
evidence_1: mar 22, 2018 ... here's what congress is stuffing into its $1.3 trillion spending bill ... the draft bill  runs 2,232 pages, and we're going through it so you don't have to. ... but there  are significant restrictions on how that new money can be spent. ... could disrupt  the farm economy and even put some companies out of business.
evidence_2: dec 11, 2018 ... there were fireworks as house minority leader nancy pelosi and senate  minority ... i mean, and when i say dropped, the only reason we even have any  percentage ... trump: ... and the house would give me the vote if i wanted it. ... if  we don't have border security, chuck, we're not going to keep it open.
evidence_3: dec 22, 2018 ... what you need to know about the partial government shutdown ... about two  hours before the shutdown was set to take effect, trump distributed a ... “there's  nothing we can do about that because we need the democrats to give us their  votes. ... even the border patrol agents and transportation security ...
evidence_4: jan 4, 2019 ... i can't tell you what that does to other countries, but i'm the ... people are actually  getting more money, taking home for money. ... a lot of you have been following  me when we were on a thing called the ... so i just wanted to bring that out. ... you  don't even have a sign saying “mexico/u.s.” there's no sign ...
evidence_5: 18 hours ago ... republicans wish their recent speakers were as ruthless as nancy pelosi is. ...  they are meeting in the situation room, far away from everyone else in the  white house. ... again, we don't expect much from a meeting of this nature.  ... package that would enhance border security and offer protections for young ...