February 13, 2019
#LOSER:
Trump's failed shutdown strategy produced an even worse deal than he started with (Aaron Blake, February 12, 2019, Washington Post)
[T]he bigger issue is this: The amount of funding is actually shy of the original deal Republicans and Democrats reached last year that Trump rejected. At that time, the spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security included $1.6 billion for 65 miles of fencing, both slightly more than the current tentative deal.This was the deal on the table (it passed 26 to 5 in the Senate Appropriations Committee in June) when Trump initially began demanding $5 billion for his wall. He's now getting slightly less than that $1.6 billion while also making a concession to Democrats on detention beds.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 13, 2019 4:22 PM