"Trump’s Vow To Build A Wall Hits A Dead End" [1]
"WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump isn’t getting the “big, beautiful” wall he wants at the border with Mexico anytime this year. And it’s highly unlikely he’ll get it in 2019 or 2020.
Trump insisted via Twitter Wednesday, “One way or the other, we will win on the Wall!” His last best 2018 hope was to hold up funding part of the government until he got $5 billion for the project.
But the votes for that sum, or for that matter much of anything involving progress on a wall, aren’t there. Congress is expected to leave for the year Thursday if the House, as anticipated, passes a stopgap budget that prevents a partial government shutdown Friday night. The Senate approved the measure late Wednesday by voice vote."
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Source: McClatchy [2], 12/20/2018