Still on: Trump ‘not backing off a border wall’

Published September 12, 2017 4:44pm ET



President Trump is not backing off his funding demand for a southern border wall, and doesn’t care how he gets the funding from Congress, according to his chief lobbyist.

Sweeping away suggestions the president has a legislative package in mind, and might even trade for the money with a watered-down alternative to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program he killed last week, Marc Short left no doubt that the wall is still on.

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