Spending billions on a boondoggle border wall to fulfill a campaign promise is a terrible use of American taxpayer money and bad border policy.
Bennie Thompson: “Spending billions on a boondoggle border wall to fulfill a campaign promise is a terrible use of American taxpayer money…”
On the recordJanuary 8, 2018
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Thompson criticizes funding for the border wall as wasteful and ineffective.
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