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Border Wall
immigration
Oct. 10, 2023
A Wall Won’t Keep Biden’s Border Problem at Bay Democrats face a political challenge with no legislatively viable solution.
By Eric Levitz
Biden Cancels Military-Funded Construction of Border Wall The DHS also says it will repair flood levees and soil erosion caused by Trump’s wall-construction efforts.
By Chas Danner
Biden Builds Popularity by Focusing on COVID Relief Plan The COVID-19 stimulus is more popular than Biden himself. That is the key to his stable job-approval rating so far.
By Ed Kilgore
What Happens to Trump’s Wall Now? Biden temporarily halted border wall funding and construction, but wrapping up Trump’s pet project promises to be a messy and expensive task.
By Matt Stieb
Whistleblower: Companies Building Trump’s Wall Smuggled In Armed Mexican Guards Subcontractors allegedly built illegal roads to bring in Mexican armed guards to protect job sites, and overcharged the government for services.
By Matt Stieb
Trump’s Order to Paint Border Wall Black Could Cost $500 Million or More: Report Pursuing the project during the pandemic, new White House estimates for the paint job led by Jared Kushner range from $500 million to $3 billion.
By Matt Stieb
border wall
Jan. 30, 2020
Trump’s Border Wall Gates Need to Be Open for Months to Handle Flash Flooding Trump’s wall is “virtually impenetrable,” except for several points of entry, for several months of the year.
By Matt Stieb
border wall
Jan. 29, 2020
New Section of Trump’s ‘Virtually Impenetrable’ Wall Blown Over by Wind The windblown barrier joins other border wall setbacks, like the fact that it can be sawed through in minutes, or climbed with a pair of ladders.
By Matt Stieb
border wall
Jan. 14, 2020
Trump Is Rushing to Make His Border Wall Look Like a Success Before November He’s been siphoning off billions of dollars from the military to make good on his racist mnemonic device turned campaign promise.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
border wall
Jan. 14, 2020
Trump to Take Another $7.2 Billion From the Pentagon for Border Wall All told, more than $18 billion in government funds has been allocated to the wall.
By Adam K. Raymond
government shutdown
Dec. 12, 2019
Congress Agrees to Spending Deal to Avoid Holiday Government Shutdown Unless the president conducts one of his famous last-minute flip-flops, the lights will stay on and the 2020 election will dictate future priorities.
By Ed Kilgore
Washington’s Jam-packed December Will Cast a Long Shadow on 2020 With impeachment proceedings, a big DoJ report on the Russia investigation, and a possible government shutdown in play, it could get crazy.
By Ed Kilgore
border wall
Nov. 26, 2019
Kushner’s Latest Task Is to Build the Wall Desperate to keep a campaign promise, Trump has reportedly put his son-in-law in charge of the wall.
By Adam K. Raymond
government shutdown
Nov. 19, 2019
Why Congress May Give Us a Government Shutdown for Christmas Once again, spending runs out just before Christmas. Once again, Trump’s border-wall demands are the main sticking point.
By Ed Kilgore
border wall
Nov. 13, 2019
Jared Kushner Wants a 24/7 Livestream of the Border-Wall Construction: Report To boost support of Trump’s base, Kushner reportedly wants to livestream the wall construction rather than speed up the building of the wall itself.
By Matt Stieb
Trump Had a Bad Day in the Courts In three cases, one involving a congressional subpoena of his financial records and two involving immigration, the administration had legal setbacks.
By Ed Kilgore
president trump
Oct. 3, 2019
The President Is a Corrupt, Bloodthirsty Tyrant, Reports Suggest Donald Trump’s latest high crimes and misdemeanors are too blatant to be believed.
By Eric Levitz
Trump’s Border Solutions Included Snake Moats, Shooting Migrants’ Legs: Report More evidence of the president’s internal conflict between stupidity and evil.
By Matt Stieb
government shutdown
Sept. 26, 2019
Congress Quietly Avoids Government Shutdown Unless Trump changes his mind and decides to veto it, the stopgap spending bill defers fights over items like the border wall until November.
By Ed Kilgore
border wall
Sept. 3, 2019
Trump Pulls $3.6 Billion From Pentagon Budget to Build Border Wall Trump raided the Defense budget to build barriers along the southern border. Beginning in January, it’ll come just in time to rally the base for 2020.
By Matt Stieb
authoritarianism
Aug. 29, 2019
Trump’s Lawless Wall and Callous Attacks on Puerto Rico Are Connected Trump’s campaign says of Democrats, “This country is ours, not theirs.” The president’s policies say the same.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Aug. 28, 2019
Trump Is Ordering Crimes to Get Wall Built Before Election A wormhole in the Constitution that opens up absolute impunity from the law for the president and his supporters.
By Jonathan Chait
Senate Sends Budget Deal to Trump Some conservatives whined ritualistically, but in the end Republicans joined Democrats in pushing big fiscal fights past the next elections.
By Ed Kilgore
border wall
July 29, 2019
Trump Gets Two Border-Wall Wins While he should be pleased with a budget deal and a favorable SCOTUS ruling, Trump could still provoke a fight over border-wall appropriations.
By Ed Kilgore
migrant crisis
June 24, 2019
The Trump Administration’s Erratic Reaction to the Migrant Child Crisis It’s hard to keep up with Team Trump’s actions denying or evading the responsibility to give kids decent treatment.
By Ed Kilgore
Military to Spend a Month Painting a Mile of Wall Because It Isn’t Pretty Enough An unspecified number of military members will reportedly spend a month painting a mile of the border wall to improve its “aesthetic appearance.”
By Matt Stieb
Donors to Stalled Campaign That Raised $20 Million for Border Wall Want Answers During the shutdown, We Build the Wall hoped to circumvent Congress for wall funding. Now, donors want to know where their money has gone.
By Matt Stieb
border wall
Mar. 26, 2019
House Fails to Override Trump’s Veto (So the Border Is an ‘Emergency’ Again) Congress already voted to block Trump’s emergency declaration. But the House lacked the two-thirds majority necessary to nullify his veto.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Mar. 18, 2019
White Evangelicals Are Still the Heart of Trump’s Base Yes, white Evangelical support varies modestly along with Trump’s overall standing, but it’s still his best demographic.
By Ed Kilgore
donald trump
Mar. 7, 2019
Trump: I Am the Wall The wall has become more than a southern border barrier. It’s a metaphor for Trump’s promise to protect his base from economic and cultural change.
By Ed Kilgore
transit woes
Feb. 21, 2019
The Battle Over High-Speed Rail Money Is Part of Trump’s War on California Trump’s focus on the California high-speed rail project curtailed by Governor Gavin Newsom is about more than his desire to recoup some federal money.
By Ed Kilgore
authoritarianism
Feb. 19, 2019
Trump’s National Emergency Is Off to a Bad Start Lawsuits, protests, horrible polls — and we’re only four days in.
By Adam K. Raymond
You Can’t Stop a Power Grab by Fact-Checking It Trump’s national emergency stems from an ideological problem, and it won’t be fixed by fact-checking.
By Sarah Jones
national emergency declaration
Feb. 15, 2019
Trump Declared a National Emergency Because He’s a Fox News Addict With his emergency declaration, Trump prioritized pleasing Sean Hannity over appealing to swing voters. That is an idiotic 2020 strategy.
By Eric Levitz
national emergency declaration
Feb. 15, 2019
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a National Emergency Everything you need to know about Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency to fund a southern border wall.
By Matt Stieb
big announcements
Feb. 14, 2019
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
national emergency declaration
Feb. 14, 2019
Trump to Sign Spending Bill, Declare National Emergency to Build the Wall Trump avoids another shutdown and an admission of failure, but an emergency declaration over the wall could create a legal and political quagmire.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Feb. 14, 2019
Congress Set to Pass Deal to Avoid Shutdown, But Trump Could Still Kill It Trump has been noncommittal about signing the funding bill. It mostly represents his surrender, so he may just be pondering how to spin it.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Feb. 12, 2019
Trump May Accept Defeat on Wall Funding and Claim He’ll Get His Money Elsewhere As Congress denies him anything like the border-wall money he’s demanded, Trump may claim he’ll “plus up” the amount via executive action.
By Ed Kilgore
government shutdown
Feb. 11, 2019
Shutdown Negotiations Still Snagged As ICE Detention Policies Come to the Fore With Trump headed to an El Paso rally amid mischaracterizations of what Democrats are demanding, another government shutdown is possible.
By Ed Kilgore
2019 grammys
Feb. 10, 2019
The Grammys Opened With a Hidden Message About the Border Wall “Build Bridges Not Walls” was promptly placed in the opening performance.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
Trump Quietly Laying Groundwork for Massive Surrender on Border Wall If he accepts the kind of deal in the works right now, Trump will have been dealt an embarrassing defeat.
By Ed Kilgore
Border Communities Are Rising Up Against Trump’s Wall People closest to the border are among those most opposed to the wall.
By Adam K. Raymond
For Lack of Anything Better to Do, Congress Resumes Border Negotiations Wheeling and dealing on border-security appropriations are pointless unless Trump gets involved or decides to take matters into his own hands.
By Ed Kilgore
state of the union address
Feb. 5, 2019
Trump to Democrats: Let’s Compromise — and Do It My Way! Another presidential address advertised as a bipartisan gesture turned out to be anything but that.
By Ed Kilgore
state of the union address
Feb. 5, 2019
Abolish the State of the Union Address Rather than delivering a delayed address that won’t change anyone’s border wall stance, Trump should have seized the chance to end a dumb tradition.
By Ed Kilgore
state of the union address
Feb. 4, 2019
Stacey Abrams’s State of the Union Response is a Golden Opportunity Responses to presidential State of the Union Addresses are often unmemorable, but Stacey Abrams has a chance to make a difference.
By Ed Kilgore
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