In a Wall Street Journal interview three days after reopening the government, President Trump handicapped the odds of a border wall settlement.
“I personally think it's less than 50-50,” he said, calling another shutdown “certainly an option.”
Shuttering the government for the third time since Trump took office remains possible, but is less likely now, given Monday's progress towards a deal in Congressional talks over securing the border. Meanwhile, bipartisan support, including among prominent Republicans like Sens. Chuck Grassley, Lisa Murkowski, Lamar Alexander and Rob Portman, is rising for bills that would prohibit shutdowns.
The president's observable objective in this political conflict is getting money from Congress to build the border wall.
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