BORDER/DEMS/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump conceded Friday [1-25-19] to mounting pressure that he reopen the federal government, agreeing to a temporary funding measure that would allow federal employees to return to work but that does not include the billions of dollars in border wall funding he’s spent the past month demanding. The outcome of the 35-day standoff leaves Trump politically chastened. Democrats have insisted since December that he sign a measure reopening the government before they sit for talks on border wall funding. After weeks of resistance, Trump agreed to just that on Friday, rendering the past month of stalemate a futile exercise in brinkmanship that left hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid and anxious. With Trump’s signal of support, lawmakers moved quickly to pass spending bills that allowed shuttered federal agencies to reopen. Trump signed a bill passed by the House and Senate to reopen the government Friday night, ending the partial shutdown.”
–Kaitlan Collins, Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak and Jim Acosta, “Trump concedes to temporarily end shutdown — without wall funding,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, January 25, 2019 10:41 pm