Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is in no hurry to reopen the government.
During an interview with Fox News on Friday, Gohmert — a dedicated hype-man for President Trump — said the President should consider keeping Washington shutdown “until hell freezes over.”
“Because we keep seeing people losing their lives without [a wall], you do it to hell freezes over,” he said when asked to predict the length of the partial federal shutdown. “Until hell freezes over because we owe it to our country. And the best thing we could do compassionately for Mexico and Central America is not give them money that ends up in the hands of the drug cartels. It’s to secure the border, so the drugs quit coming, and we don’t lose 70,000 more lives a year and Mexico becomes a top 10 economy because we dropped corruption. That’s compassion.”
It might just take that long for Congress to compromise on a spending bill. With Trump reportedly giving congressional leaders the cold shoulder, the government is unlikely to reopen until the new Congress is sworn in next month. But even then, given the impending Democratic takeover of the House, the odds of Democrats reaching a wall funding trade-off with Republicans is slim.
Gohmert wants the government to remained closed "until hell freezes over." pic.twitter.com/KITX5dQpgM
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) December 28, 2018
