I’m glad you miss me.
Democrats have already agreed to the $1.6B in committee. What happened was that Trump decided that wasn’t good enough and started negotiations over with $5.7B as his starting point. Democrats, predictably, have rolled back the previous agreement and have started their negotiating at $0B.
If you want to characterize standard negotiation tactics as opposition then have at it, declare your rhetorical victory and pat yourself on the back. But the fact that Democrats have already agreed to $1.6B for wall suggests to me that they’re not opposed to it. I’m 100% convinced that, absent Trump’s current tantrum, congress would go back to the negotiating table come up with a bipartisan plan that included <drumroll> the $1.6B for new barrier construction that DHS requested. And wouldn’t that be a good thing? The government opens, DHS gets their money for border improvements which makes us all safer, everyone wins! Except Trump. And we’re all losing now because of this nonsense.