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Government shutdown nears as Congress debates Trump's wall

Politics ಏಪ್ರಿಲ್ 23, 2017
With Congress in negotiations to keep the federal government operating beyond this week's budget deadline, President Trump's yet-to-be-funded wall on the U.S.-Mexico border was a key topic on Sunday's political talk shows.

"I believe it will" on whether government remains open Friday at budget deadline.

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AG Sessions: "I can't imagine the Democrats would shut down the government over an objection" to border wall funds

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DHS Sec Kelly tells that he expects Trump to be "insistent on funding" for border wall in stopgap govt funding measure

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. on federal budget: "It'll be enough for us to move forward through the end of September for us to get going on the wall."

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The Democrats don't want money from budget going to border wall despite the fact that it will stop drugs and very bad MS 13 gang members.

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Eventually, but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying, in some form, for the badly needed border wall.

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"Build the wall and make Mexico pay for it eventually but at a later date" doesn't roll of the tongue so well

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Pelosi: "The president...is expressing a sign of weakness. He's saying 'I can't control our borders. I have to build a wall.'"

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. to : US taxpayers "probably are very much aligned with Mexico"—neither wants "to pay for a medieval wall."

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.: Trump's border wall is an "outlandish," unaffordable, "political stunt" that "should not shut down the government."

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OMB Director Mulvaney on Gov’t Shutdown: I don’t think anyone is trying to get to a shutdown, not a desired end.

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.: "We cannot shut down the government right now"

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions: "We need that wall...and I believe Congress will eventually deliver."

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.: Politicians are locked in, they are afraid of their own shadows.

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