The Freedom Caucus is planning a special session on the floor of the House Wednesday evening in what is being considered the last chance effort to get funding for President Trump’s border wall.
The order will include speeches from some of Trump’s closest allies urging their colleagues to find a path to funding the proposed wall at the southern border. Sources tell Breitbart News that the “strategy is to amend any spending bill brought up in the House to fund Trump’s border wall and close various asylum loopholes.”
The move comes as the President himself has backed away from demanding a government shut down if he is not granted the $5 billion he deems necessary for the wall’s construction.
A short-term continuing resolution that Trump is expected to sign keeps the government operating until February, well past time when Democrats will regain control of the House. The resolution does not fund the wall.
Reports have said Senator John Cornyn expects the President to sign a ‘clean’ bill, but the Freedom Caucus doesn’t intend to concede just yet.
House Freedom Caucus fights for the wall
The House Freedom Caucus features some of the President’s biggest supporters. If anyone can turn impassioned speeches into action, it’d be his allies.
Chairman Mark Meadows, at one point a consideration as Trump’s Chief of Staff, has lambasted the continuing resolution, viewing it as a clear-cut victory for the Democrat Party.
Punting to Feb. 8 on a CR not only gives Democrats a Christmas present, it offers them a Valentine’s Day gift. Democrats will win, the wall will not be built, and Congress will once again have punted when we should’ve been taking a stand. The time to fight is now. Zero excuse.
— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) December 19, 2018
Jim Jordan, another prominent member of the Caucus who was once a possible selection for House Minority Leader, has long been arguing to fund the border wall.
“Republicans still have an opportunity to do what we said,” he declared last month, signaling his party was running out of time. “We should fund the border security wall…”
It’s likely the Caucus will echo those sentiments, especially with time being even more precious for the Republican party as they face a resolution that will prevent border wall funding until Nancy Pelosi takes over. At which point, it will not stand a chance of receiving funding until the elections in 2020.
NEW… some of TRUMP’s staunchest allies heading to the floor tonight to try to convince him to stand firm against bills without wall funding. pic.twitter.com/qWZfxFHOce
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 19, 2018
Warning shot
If the President has already made up his mind over signing the continuing resolution, this gathering of the Caucus becomes even more vital.
For it to bear any fruit, they must change Trump’s mind.
Conservative author Ann Coulter has warned that the border wall is a line in the sand – either it gets funded, or at the very least the President continues to fight for it, or the Republican Party will be finished.
“They’re about to have a country where no Republican will ever be elected president again,” she predicted.
Perhaps the House Freedom Caucus can save them from themselves.
