Letters to the Editor

Letter: Add more border wall

The congressional Democratic leadership was willing to hurt a lot of people with the partial shutdown merely to prevent President Trump from fulfilling his No. 1 campaign promise.

During the Obama administration, funds were approved by both Republican and Democrat congresspersons to build barriers of sheet piling, concrete, steel, chain-link and post-rail barriers along 700 miles of our southern border. But now the Democrats in Congress refuse to fund an additional 234 miles of barrier.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer were willing to use furloughed government workers as financial hostages in their attempt to keep the president from yet another success. They also exposed many other Americans to violence and unnecessary financial burdens. They should be ashamed!

— Donald N. Anderson

Anchorage

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