Wallace accused Pence of using the government shutdown and stopping pay for 800,000 federal workers as “leverage." Vice President Mike Pence tried to make a political speech to Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sunday, but the anchor shut him down to cut to the chase: “You could open the government tomorrow.”Chris Wallace presses Pence: "You could open the government tomorrow" ... "Isn't it really that you just want the leverage?" “The House has passed bills to open the government tomorrow,” Wallace said. And that you figure if you don’t keep the government closed” then negotiations over the border wall are “going to go nowhere?”The majority of Americans oppose the wall, according to a number of polls. Of 17 representatives and senators whose districts in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California include the southern border, only two — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) — support the wall.

Source: Huffington Post January 21, 2019 05:15 UTC