SFGATE: Trump calls for border legislation using 'nuclear option'

Trump calls for border legislation using 'nuclear option'
Published on April 02, 2018 at 05:36PM by By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and CATHERINE LUCEY, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump demanded Monday that Congress pass new border legislation using the "Nuclear Option if necessary" to muscle it through the Senate — a drastic change in rules the Republican leader has previously dismissed. Trump tweeted that the U.S. must build a border wall, but argued that "Democrats want No Borders, hence drugs and crime!" He also said that a deal to help "Dreamer" immigrants is "dead because the Democrats didn't care or act." Trump has previously called for the "nuclear option" — changing Senate rules to end the filibuster.
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