Edition · February 7, 2019
The Daily Fuckup — February 7, 2019
1 verified report published on February 7, 2019.
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Closing take
This was not one giant implosion so much as a visible continuation of one. Trump-world spent the day using emergency-style tools, legal shortcuts, and rhetorical spin to keep a politically toxic wall fight alive, which only sharpened the case that the whole project was as much about ego and messaging as governance.
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Story
Wall by waiver
Confidence 4/5
★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5
Major mess
The administration waived environmental review requirements to speed replacement of a 14-mile stretch of border barrier in San Diego, another reminder that the wall fight was now less about governing than about bulldozing obstacles. The move let the Department of Homeland Security sidestep a thicket of environmental and historic-preservation rules to keep the project moving after the shutdown drama that had dominated the previous weeks.
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