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Source: ZeroHedge

Shutdown Begins As Trump, Democrats Wrestle Over Border Wall

12/21/2018

Update 3: It now appears that a deal won’t get done after all because as Bloomberg reports, the House has just left for the night and a GOP aide says that the House won’t return before midnight.

U.S. SHUTDOWN APPEARS INEVITABLE AS HOUSE LEAVES FOR THE NIGHT

HOUSE GOP AIDE SAYS HOUSE WON’T RETURN BEFORE MIDNIGHT DEADLINE

There is still some hope because as Bloomberg adds, negotiations are still ongoing between the White House and congressional leaders on the government funding bill, though the key issue still remains how much funding for border security, and whether it would be allowed to be used to construct President Trump’s border wall.

That said, the floated $1.6BN proposal appears to have been turned down by Mark Meadows:

CORNYN SAYS DEAL BEING LOOKED AT WITH $1.6B FOR BORDER SECURITY

MEADOWS SAYS HE CAN’T DO $1.6B FOR WALL; `THERE IS NO DEAL’

GOP EXPLORING POSSIBILITY OF $1.6B FOR BORDER TO AVERT SHUTDOWN

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