salad in wrote on Jan 18
th, 2019 at 9:15am:
Fact-check: Did top Democrats vote for a border wall in 2006?
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said he doesn’t understand Democratic opposition to funding the border wall because top Democrats voted for it just over 10 years ago.
During an April 23 segment on Fox News Sunday, Mulvaney talked down concerns about a government shutdown, but scolded Democrats for obstructing action on Trump’s border wall. Mulvaney pointed to the voting record of top Democrats in 2006 to explain his confusion.
"We want our priorities funded and one of the biggest priorities during the campaign was border security, keeping Americans safe, and part of that was a border wall," he said.
"We still don’t understand why the Democrats are so wholeheartedly against it. They voted for it in 2006. Then-Sen. Obama voted for it. Sen. Schumer voted for it. Sen. Clinton voted for it. So we don’t understand why Democrats are now playing politics just because Donald Trump is in office."
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fa...Ahhhhh, the protean 'thinkers' within the Democrats.
You left out the key part of this fact-check, Salad. You know, the verdict.
Quote:Our ruling
Mulvaney said that Obama, Schumer and Clinton voted for a border wall in 2006.
They did vote for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which authorized building a fence along about 700 miles of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Still, the fence they voted for is not as substantial as the wall Trump is proposing. Trump himself called the 2006 fence a "nothing wall."
Mulvaney’s statement is partially accurate, but ignores important context. We rate it Half True.
Cunning, no?