Wednesday, January 16, 2019

SHUTDOWN DAY 25:- High drama, few results as Trump warns of ‘long’ shutdown

The House and Senate announced they would stay in session, canceling an upcoming recess week at home if the shutdown continued, which seemed likely. On the shutdown’s 25th day, Trump did not move off his demand to have Congress provide $5.7 billion to build his promised border wall with Mexico. Democrats say they will discuss border security once the government has reopened, but Pelosi is refusing money for the wall they view as ineffective and immoral.
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     22 hours ago
    The border wall is everything. Glad we have a fighter in .https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/media:4f48bfc90abd49e7b8adae766cb57a66/400.jpeg
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  2.   Retweeted
     2 hours ago
    The “border emergency” used to justify the shutdown is a figment of the xenophobic imaginations of Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump. The number of apprehensions at the southern border declined 75 percent in the past two decades. My latest:
Posted by Robby Ball at 6:13 PM