Politics A.M.: Trump aides lay foundation for emergency order to build wall, saying border is in ‘crisis’
Power Up: Trump may be about to have his own 'pen and phone' moment ; President Trump's desperate, nonsensical claim that Mexico is paying for the wall
More than 200 times, Trump promised that Mexico would pay for the wall. Now he falsely says he's keeping his promise through the revised trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. That's bunk.
Tuesday's presidential speech and Thursday's visit come amid a government shutdown in its third week and Trump's insistence that any funding bill to reopen federal agencies include $5.7 billion for his border wall.
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The newly elected senator from Florida deflected questions about anti-immigrant rhetoric and disaster response, but he will encounter votes that will force him to be with or against the president.
So far, the number of lawmakers going without paychecks is behind the pace set in the last extended shutdown, the 16-day partial shuttering in October 2013.
President Trump's about-face on how he will build his southern border wall is the latest reversal from an administration that continues to contradict itself on what it will accept to reopen the government.
The government will issue tax refunds during the shutdown, the White House said, breaking with a past policy that a shutdown would stall or freeze the tax returns process. The status of returns was uncertain after the Internal Revenue Service furloughed much of its workforce due to the partial government shutdown that started Dec. 22. […]
The partial government shutdown is now in its third week, and there has been little progress in negotiations to reopen shuttered federal agencies. Trump is demanding $5.7 billion for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border — a proposal opposed by Democrats. "I am pleased to inform you that I will Address the Nation on the […]
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