Peter King: ‘I Strongly Support Funding the Border Wall but I Don’t Believe We Should Shut the Government down’

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KING: "I strongly support funding the border wall but I don’t believe we should shut the government down. I’ve opposed it in the past when it was done by Republicans, Democrats. We have the obligation to keep the government going and also, politically, this would play into the hands of the Democrats. We have no problem getting it through the House, as far as funding the wall. We've already done that. When it comes to the Senate, the Democrats can block that. And if they block it, it's their advantage because we’ll get blamed for shutting down the government. The wall won’t be built, the wall won't be funded, and we'll get the blame for it. Try to find some compromise, try to find some other leverage, but shutting down the government to me is always counterproductive and works against the parties in power and the party responsible for it and also to me it shows an inability for us to get the job done. Our job is to keep the government open and functioning under the best circumstances we can."