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Trump Will Sign Border Deal To Avoid A Shutdown

President Donald Trump is planning to sign the bipartisan spending package Congress has agreed upon regarding border security according to a new report from CNN.

The report says that Trump will sign a new bipartisan deal that will allocate $1.375 billion for a border barrier — short of the more than $5 billion he demanded — according to two confidential sources in the White House. read more

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New Deal to Avert Shutdown Gives Trump ‘Far Less Money’

Legislators worked late Monday night on an agreement to avoid another government shutdown this week. And according to Associated Press (AP) reports this morning the deal that has been agreed to by both sides falls far short of the wall funding that the president had been demanding for months: read more

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Anti-Worker Venom also Fueled the Government Shutdown

Though the U.S. government has opened for business again, it is worthwhile to understand the anti-worker venom that perhaps motivated and certainly prolonged Trump’s Republican-backed government shutdown, which has the notoriety of being longest shutdown of the federal government in American history. read more