Surprise! Trump can't afford a shutdown

In a swift reversal, the White House on Tuesday dropped its demand that a government funding measure include $5 billion for President Trump’s wall on the Mexican border.

  The Hill

Dear Trumpettes: There is never going to be a wall.

[T]he walk-back is a stunning blow to the White House and Republicans, who stared down and out-maneuvered Democrats in a three-day shutdown in January. This time around, Republicans caved.

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It was a dramatic turnaround from a week ago, when Trump declared at a televised White House meeting that he would be “proud” to shut down the government.

“I will be the one to shut it down,” he told surprised Democratic leaders.

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[Sarah] Sanders on Tuesday said the administration is now exploring alternative funding “that we can couple with the money that would be given through congressional appropriations” that would help the president protect the southern border.

Republican senators say the president is looking at reprogramming defense funding or other federal accounts to pay for more border fencing.

Good luck with that.

Trump vowed Mexico would pay for the wall and the White House continues to say that could still occur, pointing without specifics to the recently renegotiated deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Nice try, but no cigar.

The House wasn’t even close to having the votes to pass Trump’s $5 billion wall bill.

Just as Nancy Pelosi informed him on TV, when he said he had plenty of votes in the House, but not enough in the Senate, so there was no point in taking a vote in the House.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.