Mexico border wall may not be as effective as Trump hopes

The simple fact is that no president can make a sovereign foreign government do something they believe to be disadvantageous for them. “Secure borders are vital to natl security – Congress shld fund border wall in govt funding legislation this fall – time to keep our promise”, he tweeted Tuesday.

Congressional leaders and the president haven’t really begun negotiations on the continuing resolution ― or, for that matter, the debt limit, which the USA government is due to hit some time in October ― but Democrats have been emphatic for months that they would not vote for a spending bill that funds new construction on a wall. “We’re not going to politicize veterans’ care”.

“If the debt ceiling were not to be raised, the United States would not be able to pay all of its bills”. Compass Point, a research firm, put out a warning that the chances of a shutdown had grown dramatically.

However, Ryan also said he and the president “completely agree” on the need for a border wall.

And so, we have two totally contradictory lines of thinking: 1) McConnell/Ryan dead set on avoiding a shutdown, knowing the damage it could do to the near-term and long-term political prospects of their party and 2) Trump desperate for a fight to show his outsidery-ness and distance himself from GOP leaders who don’t listen to him. But the same people will vote for them anyway. National Parks were closed, for instance, causing huge headaches for tourists who had planned getaways as well as for local economies dependent on them.

Cohn on debt ceiling, tax plan: Gary Cohn, the head of President Trump’s National Economic Council, says Congress “has to increase the debt ceiling” and that the USA “cannot be put in a position where we default”, in comments to the Financial Times published a day after Trump called the debt ceiling issue “a mess”. No deal had been cut by Trump with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

“The president promised over and over again during the campaign that Mexico would pay for the wall. He won on talking about building the wall and he’s going to make sure that that gets done”, spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. Many GOP lawmakers are proving lukewarm about the project proposal.

Trump “will purposefully hurt American communities to force American taxpayers to fund an immoral, ineffective and expensive border wall”, she wrote in a statement.

Trump’s base will be with him as long as he and his Republican Party continue to assault the voting rights of non-whites, continue to assault economic opportunities for non-whites, and continue to assault the legal rights of non-whites.

He said Republicans “need to do something that is not a Washington, D.C. -centered policy, and instead do something that will address the kitchen table issues that people actually vote on”, Buskirk concluded.

President Donald Trump is “serious” about his government shutdown threat, a senior administration official told NBC News Thursday, marking an escalation from the commander-in-chief’s warning earlier this week.

Of course, predicting what Trump is going to do can seem like a fool’s errand.

Despite the overall unpopularity of a border wall, it’s still red meat for Republicans, with nearly three in four supporting the idea.

The support for Republicans in this country in general is falling every single month.