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Schumer: 'Good for country' if Trump punts on border wall fight
[The Hill] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on Monday night that government funding negotiations can continue, after President Trump appeared open to delaying a fight over the border wall until the fall. "It's good for the country that President Trump is taking the wall off the table in these negotiations. Now the bipartisan and bicameral negotiators can continue working on the outstanding issues," Schumer said in a statement. The administration's push for border wall money had stalled negotiations over the fiscal 2017 funding bill that lawmakers have to pass by Friday to avoid a government shutdown. But Trump told a group of conservative journalists that he would be OK with getting funding for the U.S.-Mexico wall as part of the fiscal 2018 spending bill that will be passed later this year. Posted by: Besoeker 2017-04-25 |
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