{"id":2194741,"date":"2024-03-07T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-criticize-fence-set-up-around-capitol-amid-lack-of-border-security\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:08:02","slug":"republicans-criticize-fence-set-up-around-capitol-amid-lack-of-border-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-criticize-fence-set-up-around-capitol-amid-lack-of-border-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans criticize fence set up around Capitol amid lack of border security"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-criticize-fence-set-up-around-capitol-amid-lack-of-border-security%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2194741&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican lawmakers have criticized a fence set up around the U.S. Capitol ahead of President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union speech, pointing out how the government will secure the Capitol but not the southern border.<\/p>\n<p> The president will be delivering his annual State of the Union speech on Thursday evening, ahead of which a large metal fence has been erected around the Capitol building. The fence being set up comes as many Republicans have criticized the Biden administration for not securing the border between the United States and Mexico, which could potentially be a big topic for voters going into the November elections.<\/p>\n<p>  Remember this when @POTUS talks about the border tonight. <\/p>\n<p>Biden doesn\u2019t hesitate to put a barrier up for his speech in Washington but refuses to build a wall and secure the southern border. https:\/\/t.co\/QHnHWmEl2G<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) March 7, 2024  \u201cRemember this when @POTUS talks about the border tonight,\u201d Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) wrote on X. \u201cBiden doesn\u2019t hesitate to put a barrier up for his speech in Washington but refuses to build a wall and secure the southern border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cMore stupid spending,\u201d Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) wrote.  \u201cI wish Joe Biden would do this at the southern border,\u201d Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) wrote.   The Capitol\u2019s fence also caught the attention of Fox News commentator Jesse Watters, who claimed that Biden thinks\u00a0\u201che needs protection from you\u201d while not protecting the southern border. Watters also claimed the fence is meant as \u201ca sinister symbol to stigmatize\u201d the idea that half of the country is \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  Link Lauren, a senior adviser to independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr., also knocked the fence on social media, joking if the same could be done along the southern border. <\/p>\n<p>  CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p> This year\u2019s State of the Union speech will be the first one held in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas against Israel, which prompted numerous protests across the U.S. in support of either Palestinians or Israel. In December, protesters demanding a ceasefire in Gaza were arrested by Capitol Police after they took over the Capitol rotunda.<\/p>\n<p> During the speech, which will begin at 9 p.m. EST, former President Donald Trump has said he will \u201ccorrect\u201d Biden with live \u201cplay by play.\u201d It comes as Trump will likely be the Republican Party\u2019s 2024 presidential nominee, setting the stage for a rematch between him and Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican lawmakers have criticized a fence set up around the U.S. Capitol ahead of President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union speech, pointing out how the government will secure the Capitol but not the southern border. The president will be delivering his annual State of the Union speech on Thursday evening, ahead of which a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2194742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24067098073871-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24067098073871-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2194742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}