US senate passes border bill as Trump prepares to declare national emergency
has passed a major spending bill that would effectively avoid another federal , sending the legislation to the president’s desk for a signature. The bipartisan measure is the product of weeks of negotiations after the longest government shutdown in history, in which Mr Trump demanded billions of dollars towards his campaign promise of building a wall sprawling across the entirety of the US-Mexico border. At the time, he said he would be “proud” to shut the government down over his demands -- before later buckling to increased pressure from ...
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