GOP doubts Trump’s speech will end border wall battle

Published February 5, 2019 5:00am ET



President Trump will use his powerful perch at the State of the Union address to ask Congress for money to build his border wall, but few Republicans believe it will be enough to break the impasse.

“It will either bring us together or tear us apart,” Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said Monday. “We don’t know.”

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