Congress failed to build the wall, now Trump needs to do it without them

President Trump has tried to work with Democrats in Congress to solve the partial government shutdown and build a border wall, but they are not willing to budge. Now that Trump made a more-than-generous compromise proposal and Democrats still didn’t work with him, it’s time to use executive action to get the wall built himself.

The Senate voted Thursday on a bill that embodied the compromise President Trump proposed on Saturday: $5.7 billion of wall funding along the southwest border, plus three years of legal protection for “Dreamers” and others with temporary protected status. Only one Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., voted for it.