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Remarks by President Trump in Meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker-Designate Nancy Pelosi
Oval Office - - (December 11, 2018)
11:40 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Okay, thank you very much. It’s a great honor to have Nancy Pelosi with us and Chuck Schumer with us. And we’ve actually worked very hard on a couple of things that are happening. Criminal justice reform — as you know, we’ve just heard word — got word that Mitch McConnell and the group, we’re going to be putting it up for a vote. We have great Democrat support, great Republican support. So, criminal justice reform, something that people have been trying to get — how long, Nancy? Many years.
HOUSE SPEAKER-DESIGNATE PELOSI: A long time.
THE PRESIDENT: Many, many years. Looks like it’s going to be passing, hopefully — famous last words — on a very bipartisan way. And it’s really something we’re all very proud of. And again, tremendous support from Republicans and tremendous support from Democrats. And I think it’s going to get a very good vote. And we’ll see soon enough. But it will be up for a vote very shortly. A lot of years they’ve been waiting for it.
The other thing, the farm bill is moving along nicely. And I guess they’ll be voting on Friday or so. But pretty close.
SENATE MINORITY LEADER SCHUMER: Soon. Soon.
HOUSE SPEAKER-DESIGNATE PELOSI: (Inaudible.)
THE PRESIDENT: And we think the farm bill is in very good shape. A lot of good things are happening with it, and our farmers are well taken care of. And again, that will be quite bipartisan and it will happen pretty soon.
And then we have the easy one, the wall. That will be the one that will be the easiest of all. What do you think, Chuck? Maybe not?
SENATE MINORITY LEADER SCHUMER: It’s called “funding the government,” Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: (Laughs.) So we’re going to see. But I will tell you, the wall will get built. We’ll see what happens.
It is not an easy situation because the Democrats have a different view, I think, than — I can say — the Republicans. We have great Republican support. We don’t have Democrat support. But we’re going to talk about that now. We’re going to see.
One thing that I do have to say is: Tremendous amounts of wall have already been built, and a lot of — a lot of wall. When you include the renovation of existing fences and walls, we’ve renovated a tremendous amount and we’ve done a lot of work. In San Diego, we’re building new walls right now. And we’ve — right next to San Diego, we’ve completed a major section of wall and it’s really worked well.
So, a lot of wall has been built. We don’t talk about that, but we might as well start, because
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