This week, as the federal government faces a possible shutdown over Trump’s insistence on more funding for border security, the wall of his campaign trail appears to be nowhere in sight. By May 2017, Trump was boasting that his administration was already beginning construction on the wall and that a government funding deal recently reached by Congress included a “down payment on the border wall.” (It didn’t.) This is Trump’s border wall.” The truth is that not a single mile of new barrier has been constructed along the Mexican border during Trump’s presidency. Trump addressed the possible government shutdown over border security issues ahead of signing the farm bill on Thursday afternoon. He reiterated some of his main talking points on the need for a border wall, but with his newly phrased caveat.

Source: Huffington Post December 21, 2018 01:07 UTC