Just Pinned to Domestic and Global News: Border wall missing from spending plan fueling doubt it will be built... Mark my words Donald Trump said when he announced he was running for president nearly two years ago. He would build a wall on the southwest border and Mexico would pay for it. That promise the most indelible aspect of Trumps political branding has endured. It still generates some of the loudest applause during Trumps speeches as it did at a weekend rally to mark his first 100 days in office. But over the past week Trump gave up on pushing Congress to include the billions needed for the wall in the spending plan that lawmakers expect to pass this week. There is little sign that Mexico will be compelled to pay for it as Trump has so often vowed. And administration allies are increasingly trying to redefine the wall as something other than what Trump described in the campaign. The wall may be the perfect metaphor for Trumps administration so far: It remains a White House priority. Trumps harsh rhetoric about it has probably helped stem the flow of illegal border crossings stirring widespread fear in immigrant communities. But the physical wall itself remains very much in do
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