BORDER/POLITICS/WALL: "Republican lawmakers appear more than ready to open up the coffers for a $12 billion to $15 billion border wall, perhaps without the commensurate spending cuts that they demanded when it came to disaster aid, money to fight the Zika virus or funds for the tainted water system in Flint, Mich. They also seem to back a swelling of the federal payroll that Mr. Trump has called for in the form of a larger military and 5,000 more border patrol agents."
– “Republicans Now Marching With Trump on Ideas They Had Opposed,” The New York Times online, Jan 26, 2017, Jennifer Steinhaur, 1/26/2017