policy, something that democrats have refuted and today a spokesperson for the house speaker shot back in a statement to cnn, writing, quote, president trump's recklessness did not make us safer. it undermined our security with 35 days of border patrol agents, dea agents, fbi agents and homeland security personnel missing paychecks. democrats have put forward strong, smart and effective border security solutions and the bipartisan conference committee while the president still refuses to take a second shotdo shutdown off the table. the misrepresentations about democrats' commitment to border security do nothing to make our country safer. to be clear, democrats have offered republicans some concessions, offering to expand funding for added personnel and technology at the border, but they offered zero dollars when it comes to the president's long promised border wall and not giving an inch on that issue. the president clearly frustrated, that's part of the reason we heard him threaten to declare a national emergency on