Dem Rep Espaillat: Trump Threatening to Shut Down the Gov’t for Border Wall ‘Throws Salt on the Wound of Virginia’

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) argued that President Trump is rubbing salt on the wound of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia by vowing to shut down the government if a border wall isn’t funded.

Espaillat said that the president’s threat to shut down the government if a border wall isn’t built “resonates to folks that he wants to get riled up. I think this is fear-mongering at its very best. It’s divisive. It throws salt on the wound of Virginia, what just happened in Charlottesville, Virginia. It’s really unacceptable, divisive. He’s taking money away from Medicaid, which will hurt children, families, poor families, women. 40 — 60,000 people in the state of Arizona will lose their jobs if Medicaid is cut. A great number, 400,000 people were not in the ACA before it gotten enacted, and now they have health insurance. These are the programs that will be hurt if he takes — if he divests this money in the human capital and tries to build a divisive wall.”

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