{"id":1697,"date":"2017-07-27T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/tom-perez-on-passage-of-border-wall-funding\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T22:30:00","slug":"tom-perez-on-passage-of-border-wall-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/tom-perez-on-passage-of-border-wall-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Perez on Passage of Border Wall Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed a spending bill that included $1.6 billion in taxpayer funds for President Trump&rsquo;s border wall:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump&rsquo;s border wall is a massive waste of taxpayer money that will not make us safer. Like many of the president&rsquo;s policies, this initiative is rooted in nothing more than prejudice and fearmongering. And as with so many of his campaign pledges, he has broken his promise to Americans that they wouldn&rsquo;t pay a dime for this wall.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t become the world&rsquo;s brightest beacon of hope and opportunity by retreating into isolation. We did it by building bridges and tearing down walls. We did it by embracing diversity as our greatest strength. Those aren&rsquo;t just the values of the Democratic Party. They&rsquo;re the values that have always made America great.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Tom P&eacute;rez acerca de la aprobaci&oacute;n de fondos para el muro de la frontera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>El Director del Comit&eacute; Nacional Dem&oacute;crata, Tom P&eacute;rez, dio a conocer la siguientes declaraciones despu&eacute;s de que la C&aacute;mara de Representantes aprobara un proyecto de ley de gastos que incluye 1,600 millones de d&oacute;lares en fondos de contribuyentes para la construcci&oacute;n del muro fronterizo prometido por el presidente Trump:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;El muro de Donald Trump es una p&eacute;rdida masiva del dinero de los contribuyentes que no har&aacute; a nuestras comunidades m&aacute;s seguras. Como muchas de las pol&iacute;ticas del presidente, esta iniciativa tiene sus ra&iacute;ces en nada m&aacute;s que prejuicios y temor. Y como otras de sus promesas de campa&ntilde;a, Trump ha incumplido la promesa que hizo a los estadounidenses de que no pagar&iacute;an un centavo por este muro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Estados Unidos no se convirti&oacute; en el m&aacute;s brillante faro de esperanza y oportunidad aisl&aacute;ndose de otros pa&iacute;ses. Lo hicimos construyendo puentes y derribando muros; lo hicimos adoptando la diversidad como nuestra mayor fortaleza. No son s&oacute;lo los valores del Partido Dem&oacute;crata, son los valores que siempre han hecho que los Estados Unidos sean un pa&iacute;s grandioso.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed a spending bill that included $1.6 billion in taxpayer funds for President Trump&rsquo;s border wall:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump&rsquo;s border wall is a massive waste of taxpayer money that will not make us safer. Like many of the president&rsquo;s policies, this initiative is rooted in nothing more than prejudice and fearmongering. And as with so many of his campaign pledges, he has broken his promise to Americans that they wouldn&rsquo;t pay a dime for this wall.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t become the world&rsquo;s brightest beacon of hope and opportunity by retreating into isolation. We did it by building bridges and tearing down walls. We did it by embracing diversity as our greatest strength. Those aren&rsquo;t just the values of the Democratic Party. They&rsquo;re the values that have always made America great.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Chair Tom Perez released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed a spending bill that included $1.6 billion in taxpayer funds for President Trump&rsquo;s border wall: &ldquo;Donald Trump&rsquo;s border wall is a massive waste of taxpayer money that will not make us safer. 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