Dem Sen. Kaine: ‘We Have Never Withheld Funding for Border Security, and We’re Not Going To’

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BERMAN: "You just heard the governor -- or the president, I should say, say he would be proud to shut down the government over border security. I guess my question to you and Democrats is would you be equally proud to withhold your votes for funding for the president's border wall?"
KAINE: "We have never withheld funding for border security John, and we're not going to. There are two bipartisan-passed on the table right now that the president can embrace. One is that we do the budget for the rest of the year with between $1 billion and $1.6 billion in border security funding. Just order of magnitude, last year we did a bipartisan deal with $1.3 billion and the president was not even able to spend all that money while he was complaining about immigration. That deal is on the table -- it's bipartisan. And the second deal that's on the table is if the president doesn't want that, we will do a continuing resolution which means, as you know, let's just keep spending for the next two months, say, what we've spent for the last few months while we work out a final deal. Those are both bipartisan proposals, they're both on the table. The president should accept one or the other but he seems, for some reason, to be fixated upon the shutdown idea."