GOP Lawmaker Dismisses Trump Border Threat

Outgoing Rep. Ryan Costello (R-PA) blasted President Trump’s threat Friday to shut down the southern border as an “angry eighth-grader’s tweet,” the HuffPost reports.

Said Costello: “I don’t really know how to make sense of it because I don’t think he can do this even if he wanted to. It probably violates NAFTA. I don’t think he’ll have much if any support in Congress. Nor do I think logistically he’d be able to implement it.”

He added: “And when you start throwing out vacuous threats like this, people stop taking you seriously in terms of how you go about negotiating.”