Politico
By Ted Hesson
August 24, 2017
BORDER WALL STANDOFF: President Donald Trump’s combative speech Tuesday night further stoked the threat of a government shutdown this fall, POLITICO’s Josh Dawsey reports. “The fight over the wall is likely to explode in September as the administration wrangles over a new budget, an increase in the debt ceiling, the beginning of a tax reform package and a possible resuscitation of health care legislation,” writes Dawsey.
Trump called a wall on the southern border “absolutely necessary” in Tuesday’s rally in the Phoenix Convention Center. “Believe me, if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall,” Trump said to cheers. But the prospect of a shutdown doesn’t have everyone so jazzed. House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday that Congress could make good on Trump’s campaign promise and still avoid such a disruption. “I don’t think a government shutdown is necessary, and I don’t think most people want to see a government shutdown, ourselves included,” he told reporters during a visit to Intel Corp. offices in Oregon.
Top Democrats took the opportunity to bash the wall and the shutdown threat. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Democrats and some Republicans still opposed Trump’s “multi-billion dollar border wall boondoggle” and argued a shutdown would “purposefully hurt American communities.” Business leaders can’t be thrilled either: Trump’s war cry “appeared to send a shiver through the stock market” on Wednesday, MarketWatch reported.
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