“We've had a lot of conversations about what we're willing to do. And border security has always been a part of that. You know, what we're not going to do is fund a stupid wall for the sake of saying that we funded a wall, for the sake of, you know, fulfilling the president's ego and, specifically, his campaign promise, which, of course, was that Mexico was going to pay for it. And now we're going to make our American citizens pay for it.”
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