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David Frum: Shutdown Will End with ‘No Wall,’ Trump Backing Down

Friday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” former Bush speechwriter and Atlantic writer David Frum said the current government shutdown would end with President Donald Trump backing down over his demand for funding to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Frum said, “One of Donald

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Kaine on Trump’s Wall: ‘You Do Not Back Down to a Bully’

Friday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said senators cannot give President Donald Trump funding for his border wall because that would be backing down to a “bully.” Kaine said, “Let me tell you what we can’t do. I

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Pelosi: Funding for Trump’s Wall Is a ‘Non-Starter’

Thursday at her weekly briefing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters Democrats agreeing to fund President Donald Trump’s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the negotiations to avoid a government shutdown was a “non-starter.” Pelosi said,

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CNN’s Carpenter: Democrats ‘Broke’ Trump in Fight Over the Wall

Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead,” the panel discussed the temporary deal that finances the government through New Year’s Day without funding for President Donald Trump‘s wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. CNN contributor Amanda Carpenter was critical of Trump’s negotiating tack. She said, “The

Amanda Carpenter

Tim Stanley: For Trump to Avoid Impeachment ‘Build That Wall’

The latest twist in the investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia is that Paul Manafort, former head of the campaign, was wiretapped under secret court orders before and after the election — including while he was working with Trump. The revelation more or less stops there.

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Admin Touts Border Fence Improvements as Border Wall Failure Looms

Two top Trump Administration officials took to the White House press briefing podium on Tuesday to push back against Democrats spiking the football on the new spending bill and criticism that the bill doesn’t fund the new border wall that was promised during the President’s election campaign.

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White House Unclear When Border Wall Will Be Funded, Built

“Build the Wall,” chanted Trump 100 Days rally-goers in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this weekend, but on Monday questions persisted about the lack of border wall funding in Congress’s new spending bill, leaving it unclear when exactly a wall along the U.S. southern border will be built.

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