ML-Implode News - Trump push for border wall threatens to cause government shutdown

Looming above Washington as Congress and the White House attempt to avert a funding shutdown in only five days' time, Donald Trump's central campaign promise to build a wall on the Mexican border threatens to bring the US government to a halt this week in a national display of dysfunction
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The president himself waded into the negotiations on Sunday, holding out two sticks and no carrot. "ObamaCare is in serious trouble," he tweeted. "The Dems need big money to keep it going -- otherwise it dies far sooner than anyone would have thought."
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Trump's threats did not appear to faze Democratic leaders, who watched last month as Republicans failed to make a deal within their own party on repealing and replacing Barack Obama's healthcare reform

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