Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are demanding equal airtime to address the government shutdown and the President’s demands for a border wall following his national primetime address from the Oval Office Tuesday evening.
“Now that the television networks have decided to air the President’s address, which if his past statements are any indication will be full of malice and misinformation, Democrats must immediately be given equal airtime,” the pair said in a joint statement to TPM Monday evening.
Read the full statement below:
“The facts are clear: President Trump has the power to stop hurting the country by re-opening the government and ending the Trump Shutdown,” they said.
“Democrats and an increasing number of Republicans in Congress have repeatedly urged the President and Leader McConnell to end the Trump Shutdown and re-open the government while Congress debates the President’s expensive and ineffective wall,” they continued. “Unfortunately, President Trump keeps rejecting the bipartisan House-passed bills, which have already received strong bipartisan support in the Senate, to re-open the government. Instead, he is still demanding that American taxpayers pay at least $5.7 billion for his wall, which can’t pass either chamber of Congress and of course Mexico is not paying for.
“Now that the television networks have decided to air the President’s address, which if his past statements are any indication will be full of malice and misinformation, Democrats must immediately be given equal airtime.
“On Day One of the new Congress, the House passed bipartisan legislation that honors our responsibility to protect the American people with funding for smart, effective border security solutions – just not the President’s wasteful and ineffective wall.”
Why do they need equal air time when we all know Trump always speaks the truth and is our greatest President ever.
Also he is running his country like his businesses ,right into bankruptcy.
At least there’s a ballgame on another channel…
The TV networks should also fact check Trump in real time. Difficult job, but it needs to be done with that lying POS.
Yeah, maybe no one will watch, but the Dems. deserve equal time. The networks have to know that, perhaps there might be a little misinformation coming from tRump, and to be fair they need to let them speak.
Wonder if Faux would put the Dems. on?
A running banner that says. “This is all lies” seems easy enough.