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    Trump Shows Flexibility on Wall as Border Deal Comes into View

    This is encouraging.

    WASHINGTON — Faced with limited options and a looming deadline to prevent another government shutdown, President Trump is showing new flexibility on a border-security deal that would fall well short of his once-firm demand for $5.7 billion in funds for a wall at the southwestern frontier.

    On Capitol Hill, House and Senate conferees were nearing an agreement that could offer the president around $2 billion in funding for physical barriers, a number, still subject to change, that could result in a deal as early as Monday.

    “We’re 95 to 98 percent done,” said Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

    It remains unclear if Mr. Trump will accept a figure of around $2 billion or how much of the final allocation would go for new fencing, according to three people briefed on the negotiations. But members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which had earlier pushed Mr. Trump to take an uncompromising line on wall funding, met with him on Thursday, and they indicated that any number above $2 billion would satisfy them for now.
    I have no doubt that trump can convince his 30 percenters that this "fulfills" his campaign promise.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    This is encouraging.



    I have no doubt that trump can convince his 30 percenters that this "fulfills" his campaign promise.
    Very proud of our President putting America ahead of his political promises. If only the leftist could do the same.
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    Watched a little of that hearing this morning and the libs are going after Trump, a proud man like him is hard to put down.
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    Rome was not built in a day; neither is hundreds of miles of a wall. It will take about 18 months to spend $2B on wall construction, which carries it to just about November 2020.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wacojoe View Post

    Art of the deal, my friend...
    I guess if you are making the deal with idiots
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    I guess if you are making the deal with idiots
    He is.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mgrist View Post
    He is.
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