Session #115 · 2017–19

Speech #CREC-2017-04-24-pt1-PgS2474-5_t0

For those reasons, it is not just Democrats who oppose the wall, many Republicans oppose the wall. According to a Wall Street Journal survey: ``Not a single member of Congress who represents the territory on the southwest border said they support President Trump's request for $1.4 billion to begin construction of his promised wall.'' That includes my friends Senators Cornyn, Cruz, McCain, and Flake. For the very same reasons, the American people don't support the idea of a border wall by almost a 2-to-1 margin. A recent Quinnipiac poll found that 64 percent of Americans oppose a wall on the border with Mexico, versus only 33 percent who favor it, and that poll didn't even include the fact that Mexico would not be paying for it under the President's plan. Now, I say to my colleagues and to President Trump, we Democrats don't mind having a debate on the wall in regular order.
Keywords matched
border wall

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
CHARLES SCHUMER
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NY
Gender
—
Date
2017-04-24
Speech ID
CREC-2017-04-24-pt1-PgS2474-5_t0
Paragraph
#2
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