{"id":6973,"date":"2019-01-08T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nebraskadem.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2019-01-08T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T22:58:02","slug":"nation-girds-for-more-lies-as-trump-goes-on-national-tv-to-address-government-shutdown-wall-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskademocrats.org\/ar\/press-releases\/nation-girds-for-more-lies-as-trump-goes-on-national-tv-to-address-government-shutdown-wall-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation Girds for More Lies as Trump Goes on National TV to Address Government Shutdown, Wall Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite overwhelming support from citizens to end the partial government shutdown caused by President Donald Trump over funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, he will go on TV tonight in what is being billed by the White House as an address on the border \u201ccrisis\u201d and the need to spend billions on a wall to keep refugees and immigrants out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Trump promised Mexico would pay for his wall and yet he and the Republican Party instead are turning to the American people to bail him out of a ridiculous political stunt,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShutting down our government and inflicting pain on working class families must end.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump could easily end the government shutdown whenever he wants to. Instead, he continues to hold workers\u2019 paychecks hostage for his political stunt in exchange for congressional approval of money for the wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Democrats and an increasing number of Republicans continue to urge Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY) to end the Trump Shutdown and reopen the government while Congress debates Trump\u2019s expensive and ineffective wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe\u2019s rejected the bipartisan House-passed bills to reopen the government, which have already received strong bipartisan support in the Senate,\u201d Kleeb said. \u201cThe president has repeatedly lied and spread misinformation to push his manufactured crisis at the border, And we can expect tonight\u2019s remarks to be more of the same.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the major TV networks were debating whether to even broadcast Trump\u2019s remarks, which are set for 8 p.m. CT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He calls us fake news all the time, but needs access to airwaves \u2026 If we give him the time, he&#8217;ll deliver a fact-free screed without rebuttal,\u201d one TV news executive texted to CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter. \u201cAnd if we don&#8217;t give him the time, he&#8217;ll call every network partisan. So we are damned if we do and damned if we don&#8217;t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) released a statement on behalf of the 800,000 federal workers going without paychecks during the shutdown<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Real families with very real bills are being harmed and it\u2019s time we hold our country\u2019s leadership accountable,\u201d the AFGE said. \u201cOur average member\u2019s take home pay is $500 a week. 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