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On day one of the 2018 government shutdown, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) came out and claimed that he offered President Trump funding for his border wall in exchange for protection for so-called Dreamers via the Differed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and he turned it down. Since then, the liberal media have been running around claiming that Trump was the reason an agreement couldn’t be reached. But during Sunday’s Meet the Press, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) chastised the media for buying the claim “hook, line, and sinker.”
The dust-up with NBC host Chuck Todd began after Cotton was explaining that the only real deal put forward to the President didn’t cover a wall and barely covered construction of new fences, mostly just repairs. “That's already changed. That's already changed. Chuck Schumer on Friday gave him full funding for the wall, 18 billion. Put it on the table. Done! That’s already changed,” snapped Todd.
Cotton shot back by asking if Todd was in the negotiating room, then explained the serious problem with Democrats and the media:
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