Does President Trump want border-wall funding in this week’s spending bill, or doesn’t he? Just over the weekend, top administration officials were suggesting they might push for money to begin construction on a wall along the southern border with Mexico as Congress gets ready to deal with the current continuing budget resolution, which ends on Friday. And on Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that while negotiations were ongoing in both the House and the Senate, one of Trump’s two priorities for any spending bill would be “for our homeland border security and the wall.” (The other priority? Defense spending.)
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