Deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley on Sunday rejected the notion that Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer ever offered to fund President Trump's border wall, accusing the New York Democrat of using verbal gymnastics to give the impression of compromise.
"Chuck Schumer said that he rescinded his offer to fund the wall. That's like me saying I'm going to rescind my offer to give all your listeners a million dollars," Gidley told radio host John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York. "I never made a real offer. It never existed."
"What he offered the president was an authorization for wall funding. Not an appropriation. And to be honest, that's D.C. swamp speak for 'nothing's ever going to happen.' So the senator is being disingenuous about what he truly offered the president, just like he's being disingenuous in blaming someone else for the Schumer shutdown."
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