Trump’s Shutdown Reaches Another Milestone in Self-Inflicted Damage
The border-wall shutdown kept dragging on January 13, with the administration still unable to produce an acceptable deal and the standoff now sitting as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Trump had spent the previous days floating, then retreating from, a national-emergency threat, which only underscored how boxed in he had become by his own demand for wall money. The result was a presidency stuck in a loop of escalating rhetoric and shrinking options.
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Trump’s Shutdown Reaches Another Milestone in Self-Inflicted Damage
The border-wall shutdown kept dragging on January 13, with the administration still unable to produce an acceptable deal and the standoff now sitting as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Trump had spent the previous days floating, then retreating from, a national-emergency threat, which only underscored how boxed in he had become by his own demand for wall money. The result was a presidency stuck in a loop of escalating rhetoric and shrinking options.
The border-wall shutdown kept dragging on January 13, with the administration still unable to produce an acceptable deal and the standoff now sitting as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Trump had spent the previous days floating, then retreating from, a national-emergency threat, which only underscored how boxed in he had become by his own demand for wall money. The result was a presidency stuck in a…
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