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Pelosi Spokesman Statement on Republicans’ Hypocritical Refusal to Offset Cost of Border Wall

January 26, 2017
Washington, D.C. – Drew Hammill, spokesman for Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, released this statement following Speaker Ryan's refusal to commit to offsetting the multi-billion dollar cost of President Trump's border wall.

"The same Republicans who howled ‘fiscal responsibility' when it comes to investments to help working families are apparently willing to light billions of taxpayer dollars on fire and add to the federal deficit in order to build Trump's useless border wall," said Hammill.  "President Trump's insistence that Mexico will pay for the wall has once again just been proven as delusional fiction by the Mexican President.  The wall is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle in the making, and Republicans should be embarrassed about their brazen hypocrisy in enabling it."