Conservative columnist lists all the times the GOP could have funded Trump's wall -- and failed

President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have been arguing that the situation at the southern U.S. border is such a crisis that it requires Democrats to vote in favor of the president's proposed border wall.

However, conservative columnist Noah Rothman points out that the president and the GOP had a full two years to get the wall funded if it was such a dire national emergency -- and every time the opportunity came up, they failed to do so.

In fact, Rothman has also found that many Republican lawmakers over the past two years have actually downplayed or even disparaged the proposed border wall as an effective strategy for border security.

"The border wall is probably not a smart investment," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in early 2017, in a comment flagged by Rothman.

"I don't think we're just going to be able to solve border security with a physical barrier because people can come under, around it and through it," said Sen. John Coryn (R-TX) just one month earlier.

Additionally, Rothman documents all the times that Republican lawmakers have openly admitted to punting on funding the wall, including this past September when the Washington Post reported that "Republican leaders are more focused on urging Trump to delay a fight for the wall than on fighting for it themselves."

Read the whole thread below.