In Washington, President Trump has made the shutdown a binary issue: At the end of the day, he’s got to have his border wall. Yes, the administration is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars tied to other border-security needs, such as more border agents and more judges for immigration cases. But one seemingly nonnegotiable demand is that Congress pony up billions for a taller, more expansive wall, in steel or concrete, along the border with Mexico.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times