Shutdown and Wall Insanity Most People Don't Know About

Shiff & Shuman in the Senate shut down the government by refusing to pass the 2018 agreed funding programe which included $5.7 billion to complete the Mexican border wall, this was a key policy of President Trumps and only an absolute maniac refuses to look further into the details. Trump refuses to sign off the budget amendments because the Republican Majority Senate many of which he personally spent his credibility last year campaigning for stabbed him in the back over a key republican pledge, and also stabbed congress in the back which at that time was a majority republican house which forced him to compromise for 2 years with its democratic policies.

Senators 100
53 Republican
45 Democrat
2 Independent
Now to pass a budget a qualified majority of 60 is required and last years got 57 out of 60 because of the schiff schuman Democrat boycott of a wall they both voted and campaigned previously for which has an ancestry going back to Bill Clinton, the entire border could have been fenced off with 2 chain link + barbed wire fences for $4 billion including roads, towers and encampment & processing centers. The WALL all caps as in the concrete and steel slat monster is the desire of the Border Force agency itself, and it works.
Yes fentanyl does not originate from Mexico, it is Chinese and is imported through WTO free trate uninspected cargo whever parcels or through the Pacific ports, every worm has his blind spot and I am certain this was a deliberate insert of an achillies heel by a white house staffer knowing Trump was no expert on the drugs war.
However all the US drugs not entering through Florida by speedboat enter via Mexico using uninspected transport.
The Concrete/Steel wall stops the movement of well over 400,000 people a year (known and detained by Border Force each year just less than that) which means that manpower can be dedicated to the points of entry allowing the less than 5% of vehicles inspected for contraband to become 100%. An East German style fence still works but more manpower is needed since bolt cutters are relatively cheap you would need some sort of secondary deterrant such as microwave towers (East Germany mined the fence and the land between fences) but the area still has to be patrolled. A really big wall means until it is compromised you get to deploy elsewhere.

And Yes you can. The national budget is $4 Trillion a year and wall funding is 1.5% of it, and the Dmeocrats only want to spend $1.5 billion on border security unrealted to the wall but are happy to pass a $600 billion+ defense budget which does nearly nothing to defend the United States but serves corporate interests.