1/18/2019

BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “House Democrats have added more than $1 billion in border-related spending to a package of funding bills that would reopen most of the government, even as President Trump said he would have a ‘major announcement’ on Saturday [1-19-19] about the border and the shutdown stalemate. Both sides’ actions were the first indications of possible movement over the shutdown after a week of inertia and harsh words between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Mr. Trump. That conflict culminated when the president, responding to Ms. Pelosi’s request that he postpone his State of the Union address, announced on Thursday [1-17-19] that he would not authorize the use of a military plane to fly her and other members of Congress to Afghanistan to meet with American troops. Ms. Pelosi said Friday she was postponing the trip after the White House leaked her alternative plan to use a commercial airline because she had been advised it was too dangerous.”

Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Trump to Make ‘Major Announcement’ on Border as Democrats Sweeten Offer,” The New York Times online, January 18, 2019