It has been about 12 hours since House and Senate negotiators reached a tentative deal to avert another government shutdown, and President Trump still hasn’t issued his all-important endorsement. In fact, it’s probably a worse deal than Trump would have gotten if he had never shut down the government in the first place. That’s well shy of the $5.7 billion and 200 miles in wall funding he demanded that led to the shutdown, but it’s not nothing. At a rally in El Paso last night, signs read “Finish the wall” instead of “Build that wall,” though there’s been no real shift in wall funding under his watch. A banner reading "Finish the wall" is displayed at a rally for President Trump in El Paso on Monday.

Source: Washington Post February 12, 2019 13:53 UTC