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How Trump can still get his Wall
Marc Thiessen February 12, 2019
It’s official. We just had the longest government shutdown in history over absolutely nothing.
Democrats have agreed to fund $1.375 billion for 55 miles of physical barrier along the border, which is only a little more than what President Trump would have gotten under a continuing resolution that funded the government at current levels.
It’s far less than the $5.7 billion he demanded to build 230 miles of barriers that experts and the Department of Homeland Security said they need to properly secure the border.
But Trump can still get the rest of the money — without a government shutdown or declaring a national emergency.
Shutting down the government again isn’t an option. Trump’s Democratic opponents aren’t afraid of another shutdown. That’s because they know if Trump rejects this deal and closes the government, he would get the blame, and in a few weeks’ time we would end up right back where we are now — with a bad deal.
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