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From the early days of his campaign, President Donald Trump promised Americans a “big, beautiful wall” built along the border of Mexico — and that Mexico will pay for it. Now, the first half of that pledge is at a standoff with the second half while the federal government teeters on the brink of shutdown.
Trump’s insistence that American taxpayers foot the bill for getting the wall started is one of the thorny issues—along with Obamacare subsidies and expanded military spending—that Congress is wrestling with as lawmakers in Washington face a deadline for passing this year’s budget.
Trump’s insistence that American taxpayers foot the bill for getting the wall started is one of the thorny issues—along with Obamacare subsidies and expanded military spending—that Congress is wrestling with as lawmakers in Washington face a deadline for passing this year’s budget.
- 4/24/2017
- by Diana Pearl
- PEOPLE.com
Hillary Clinton isn't the only top politician who's recently suffered a bout of pneumonia. No. 3 Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, the senator from New York, announced that he was diagnosed with pneumonia several weeks ago but it has since cleared up, The Associated Press reported Monday, one day after Clinton's own pneumonia diagnosis was revealed after she fell ill at a 9/11 memorial service in New York City. In response to questions from The Associated Press, Schumer spokesman Matt House said in a statement that after receiving the diagnosis, Schumer took antibiotics prescribed by his doctor, and also lightened his schedule. "His...
- 9/12/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
Hillary Clinton isn't the only top politician who's recently suffered a bout of pneumonia. No. 3 Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, the senator from New York, announced that he was diagnosed with pneumonia several weeks ago but it has since cleared up, The Associated Press reported Monday, one day after Clinton's own pneumonia diagnosis was revealed after she fell ill at a 9/11 memorial service in New York City. In response to questions from The Associated Press, Schumer spokesman Matt House said in a statement that after receiving the diagnosis, Schumer took antibiotics prescribed by his doctor, and also lightened his schedule. "His...
- 9/12/2016
- by Tierney McAfee, @tierneymcafee
- PEOPLE.com
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