Jim Jordan on end-of-session priorities: Wall funding & Rosenstein testimony

11/27/18

Mitch McConnell stated today that GOP leaders are trying to come up with the money the President wants to build the wall. But is $5 billion enough for now? Lou Dobbs asked Congressman Jim Jordan his opinion.

JORDAN: We do want to do what we said—and more importantly—what they elected us to do in 2016. And that was to build a border security wall. So we had better put it on this funding bill.

DOBBS: Do you think the leadership has to come up with a little better rationale here for the $5 billion dollars? Because what I heard them saying is, you got 5 weeks left, they’re going to give you $5 billion dollars…for two years, the President will have. At that rate, it will take 10 years to build the damn wall. The American people have had a bellyful of this nonsense; this is why the Republican leaders lost heavily in this past election.

JORDAN: I agree, we should do the whole darn thing, we’ve seen what’s played out the last few days on the border. We’ve got 5 weeks. Do you think we’re gonna get it when Nancy Pelosi’s running the House of Representatives? So of course we gotta to do it now. We gotta do the whole thing now. I’ll take what we can get but we should be pushing for it, like you said, $25 billion to build the security wall…We’ve got 5 weeks to get it done, let’s focus on that.

DOBBS: Congress [the House], which has a terrible reputation, as does the Senate. Part of the reason that that we have been waiting for 22 years in this country—since 1986, the last amnesty—[actually, 32 years!!] for border security to be put in place. I don’t think the American people could be fooled by any finesse nonsense again–

JORDAN: No, of course not.

DOBBS: –from either party.

JORDAN: They’re not gonna be fooled…They want the border secured first. Then we can talk about the other issues. There are really two things that need to happen… in the next five weeks, before the end of the year….one is what we’ve been talking about: build the border security wall…and the second is that Rod Rosenstein has to come in front of us and answer our questions. After all, it’s been nine weeks since… it was first reported that Rod Rosenstein was actually thinking about wearing a wire and recording the President of the United States and invoking the 25th Amendment….we should spend every day here to get those two things done. That’s what the people elected us to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZw3t1Xrgfs ~ 27min.