It's not a serious offer for Democrats or Republicans on the Hill who want to keep the government open, fund border security and prevent mass deportations of DREAMers. It raises the possibility that Trump will follow up his tax cut win with dysfunction and deportation in '18. 2/2
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But the $18B wall figure is a 10-year # and doesn't represent any new $ for '18
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Deferring to the dean of the budget press corps on this specific point - and yet it's only a piece of a $33B ask for Phase One of the wall-plus associated costs. And, presumably Trump would wait a decade to ask for more. It's not a fig leaf for the White House, it's a fig forest.
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*wouldn't* wait
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