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    Trump's Demand for Border Barrier Funding Hits a Wall

    While the president can spin on whatever immigration-control measures he gets in the spending bill, between health care and the wall funding, lawmakers know the real score: Congress: 2, Trump: 0.
    by Michelle Cottle Apr 27, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    Talk about an impressive political about-face. In the fight over whether the government funding bill currently under negotiation would include $1.5 billion for his Great Wall, Donald Trump went from intransigent chest-thumper to panicked back-pedaler in, what, six days?

    Starting last Wednesday,  President Trump had budget chief Mick Mulvaney running all over town warning that the president would not look kindly on any deal that did not fund his pet border wall—that, in fact, he

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