Dem Sen Blumenthal: ‘A Border Wall Is a Waste of Money’ – ‘Really Reprehensible’

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated that while Democrats will support increased border security, they won’t support a border wall in the way President Trump has proposed and that “Squandering billions of dollars on an ineffective solution to border security is really reprehensible.”

Co-host Alisyn Camerota asked, “Are you going to have to give President Trump his funding for his border wall in order to get a deal?”

Blumenthal answered, “A border wall is a waste of money. Squandering billions of dollars on an ineffective solution to border security is really reprehensible. So, we are going to be supporting border security, surveillance, drones, more training for the agents who are there, and additional agents. There are ways we can strengthen the fencing that exists and maybe extend it. If the Mexicans are not going to pay for the border wall as Donald Trump promised, we won’t support it in the way that he has proposed.”

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