West Wing Reads ‘I Saw the Crisis at the Border with My Own Eyes -- Congress Can Fix It’

‘I Saw the Crisis at the Border with My Own Eyes -- Congress Can Fix It’  For the past few months, a number of far-left Democrats in Congress have chosen to politicize America’s border crisis rather than help President Donald J. Trump fix it. “Earlier this month, I joined Vice President Pence and a group of Senate Republicans to see firsthand the humanitarian and security crisis at our southern border,” Rep. Tom Rice (R-SC) writes for Fox News. “If the reports and rhetoric from my colleagues across the aisle were true, the facilities we toured would have been dirty and unlivable. That was not the case,” he says. “Everyone at both of these facilities had access to food, water, hygiene items, and medical care . . . The first facility housed family units, and everyone we spoke to said they were being treated well. The second facility we visited housed single men who were apprehended crossing into our country illegally, many of whom had criminal records or had been deported previously.” Click here to read more. “When Donald Trump in 2016 pledged to kill two Obama-era regulations for every new one, crowds went wild,” Paul Bedard writes for the Washington Examiner. The Trump Administration has blown that goal out of the water. “We’ve hit 13 to 1,” acting White House Budget Director Russ Vought says, leading to a $33 billion savings for taxpayers. “Many Democrats seem reluctant to support [USMCA] because they view doing so as giving the Trump administration a victory. That’s wrongheaded and very shortsighted,” The Messenger editorial board writes. USMCA is an excellent trade deal that benefits all three countries and “is also vitally important for Iowa,” they add. “One in five jobs in Iowa is tied to trade. Canada and Mexico are the top export markets for Iowa products.” “(NAFTA) took effect in 1994 and is overdue for an update. So much in our economy has changed since then, meaning Americans are now in need of a stronger trade deal that finally includes some of the newest and most productive parts of our economy,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) writes in The Highland County Press. “Now is the time to ratify this agreement. If House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to stall on this deal for political optics, it would be a defiant slap in the face of the American people.” “President Trump on Monday paid his respects to the late Justice John Paul Stevens, traveling to the Supreme Court where the justice is lying in repose. The president and First Lady Melania Trump stood in silence in front of Stevens’s casket in the Supreme Court’s Great Hall,” Jacqueline Thomsen reports in The Hill. “Trump also ordered that flags be flown at half-staff in honor of Stevens.”