White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday that President Trump’s primary focus is on the safety of the American people, and that Democrats are “too busy playing politics instead of doing their jobs.”
In addressing the president’s remarks about the possibility of shutting down the southern border with Mexico, Sanders argued that even former President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary agreed last week that there is a “crisis” at the border, and pointed to more widespread acceptance of President Trump’s declarations.
“We’re glad that others and Democrats and people in the mainstream media are starting to understand the crisis that the president has been talking about for the last two years,” she said on “America’s Newsroom.”
As for the strict measures the president is proposing for the border, she added, “Democrats in Congress are leaving us no choice. They’re unwilling to work with us to fix this problem because they’re too busy playing politics to do their jobs.”
Among renewed concerns about how closing the border would negatively impact jobs and the national GDP, Sanders said that Mexico has been cooperating more in recent weeks by participating in the illegal immigration process, stopping people from crossing and offering asylum on their side of…
