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The government funds run out in September. President Trump has said on Twitter that he’s going to be fighting on this one to include funding for his wall. There will be a shutdown of the government should Trump and/or Congress refuse to pass legislation.

Mark Meadows says that he has enough Republicans on board to block any government funding legislation if there is no appropriations made for President Trump’s southern border wall.

That statement alone is fine, but the follow up comments should deeply concern people as he highlights a key problem with the GOP.

No one seems to be talking about his other statements outside of the government shutdown:

Without a doubt there is enough conservative members who will not support any funding mechanism that does not include border wall funding and it’s also even some who are probably even a little bit less conservative as it relates to immigration because it is the major impediment for really fundamentally getting control of what we do from an immigration standpoint. Until we secure our southern border, there will be no pathway to citizenship for anybody and we can’t revamp our legal immigration process until we’ve secured our southern border. But, yeah, conservatives are definitely going to support the president in demanding that there be funding for the border wall. My conversations with the president have led me to believe that there is nothing less than a full and total commitment on his part to only sign into law a funding bill that actually allows for us to start construction of a border wall on our southern border. He’s committed to do that. We’re committed to supporting him in that position. And most importantly, the American people are willing to support him in that and believe that it’s a campaign promise that this president is going to fulfill. I think that sometimes our leadership has to understand where the American people are, so regardless of where their personal conviction may be on this I think they understand in order to get 218 votes and 60 votes in the Senate it’s going to have to include border wall funding and if not we’re going to be looking at a continuing resolution and finding other ways to do emergency funding for the border wall.

Conservatives don’t support amnesty. Any program that includes a “pathway to citizenship” is amnesty.

Mark Meadows doesn’t get it, when Trump said “they have to go home,” he didn’t secretly mean that illegal aliens get to stay here anyway. Illegal aliens should not be waiting for the GOP to pass some sort of “pathway to amnesty” bill legalizing them. They should be in fear for their livelihoods here and should be running back across the borders.

This fetish by the GOP to give illegal aliens amnesty is one of the major problems Trump supporters had with Ted Cruz during the primary. The man supported massively increasing legal immigration and amnesty when the Senate last took up a bill calling for it.

Trump presented the only opportunity for real differences and a clean break with the Chamber of Commerce dominated Republican party.

And here we are having “conservatives” like Mark Meadows even entertaining the idea of a pathway to citizenship for people who’s first act in this country was to break the law. And we can be almost assured that their subsequent acts were to steal someone’s identity and taking jobs from American citizens.

And on top of all that, under every GOP amnesty plan to date, every illegal gets to stay here because they get legal status… amnesty.

The globalist/democrat in all but name GOP sponsors usually include some puff piece “tough measures” so they can puff out their chests and pound the table that this is tough action. All the while the Democrats get to mewl that they just want to make them citizens.

Of course they’ll compromise at just amnesty with eventual citizenship (people will still pretend that any bill with limits, disallowing people with legal status from becoming citizens, won’t be immediately struck down by the courts).

When Mark Meadows even entertains this thought, he normalizes it and moves the Overton Window left. The Republican party in general does not seem to have grasped why Trump won the last election.

We very well might have a government shutdown in September so we can get the border wall funded. Conservatives need to watch the GOP like hawks since they seem dead set on starting another round of amnesty bills to shove down our throats.