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Right now a surprising number of ocean open issues. At least half a dozen from fairly big to somewhat big open issues that theyre still trying to nail down. Its one of the situations where until everything is agree to nothingness agreed to. One of the issues off the table, President Trump said funding for the border wall will wait till later this year. How significant was the . From democrats it was a major breakthrough. Probably stepping back a little bit two weeks ago democrat said we need to see costsharing payments. Money for that needs to be included in this bill. That was a new demand. It had been percolating a little bit. Theres litigation the House Republicans filed on this issue and has been hanging out there for years. The democrat said we need to see that money put into the spending bill. That was a new autho offer ther. You can look at the wall as the white house retaliation a response a if youre going to ask for your obama care payments were going to ask for the wall. The