Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who expressed disappointment at the lack of a deal, and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. “This is our only chance that we’ll ever have, in our opinion, because of the world and the way it breaks out, to get great border security,” Trump said Friday. Early this week, the Senate approved a bipartisan deal keeping government open into February and providing $1.3 billion for border security projects but not the wall. That jump-started negotiations between Congress and the White House. The White House said Trump did not go to Florida on Friday as planned for the Christmas holiday.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 22, 2018 05:48 UTC