National emergency: What powers has Donald Trump invoked to bypass Congress?
has signed a new government funding and border security bill after it was voted through by the Senate and House of Representatives, averting a second shutdown. But the deal thrashed out by bipartisan negotiators awards the president just under $1.4bn (£1.1bn) in federal funding for his proposed Mexico border wall, well short of the $5.7bn (£4.4bn) he originally demanded and only enough to buy 55 miles of the 2,000-mile barrier he envisions towering from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, the ...
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