BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump’s renewed demand for U.S. taxpayer funding of his proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall was threatening again on Tuesday [11-27-18] to bring on a budget standoff and a partial government shutdown, leaving Congress just 11 days to act. With time running short, Trump and Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives huddled at the White House. Representative Steve Scalise, who attended the meeting, later told Fox News: ‘It’s all about border security and $5 billion is the number’ for the wall. That figure is significantly higher than even Republicans in the Senate have sought and Democrats have rejected. Trump, in an interview with the Washington Post, hinted at a way to avoid a government shutdown but still build his wall. He referred to his ordering of U.S. troops to the border in October to install ‘barbed wire and fencing and various other things,’ the newspaper reported.”
–Richard Cowan, “As Trump renews border wall demands, U.S. government shutdown looms,” Reuters, November 27, 2018 1:39 pm