As the partial federal government shutdown entered Day 16, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) railed against Democrats for not caving to President Donald Trump’s demands for border wall funding, asserting that the GOP wouldn’t back down. During an appearance Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” the senator told host Margaret Brennan that his weekend conversation with the president had made clear that the wall was non-negotiable. Graham proceeded to vent his frustration with Democrats as talks to reopen the government continue to stall. “We’re having to negotiate with people who want to abolish ICE, not support ICE,” he said. “We’re having to negotiate with people who see the Border Patrol agents gassing children, rather than defending our borders as professional law enforcement officers, and we’re negotiating with people who will give us one dollar for the wall, even though it’s immoral, and accuse all of us who support a wall as part of border security as racist.”

Source: Huffington Post January 07, 2019 02:37 UTC