User Clip: 190613 Cornyn Said Democrats 'Put Trump in a Corner,' Forced Tariffs on Mexico

"I would also add, for those who were disturbed by the President's invocation of his tariff authority to try to bring the Mexican Government to the table to negotiate some changes in the way the Mexican Government deals with this flow of Central Americans coming across its country, none of that would have been necessary if our Democratic colleagues had simply worked with us both on the underlying legislation and on this appropriations bill. Frankly, the President was put in a corner, and there was not much else he could do." close