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He got less. why? house democrats now control members of congress, and that changes how negotiations work. there is a reason why $1.375 billion was the maximum republicans could get. it just depends on how the president looks at this and how his staff presents it to him. on detention beds, which have become an enormous issue and has been a very divisive issue between the two parties for years and definitely in the last couple of months, you can see they made some headway than they thought they were going to get. interior enforcement, which for immigration hawks is a much bigger issue for them than the bordered wall, but for him that s a win, he has to go along. and he has to keep in mind that republicans are not with him like they were over the summer. you can t state just how over it everyone is. they want to move on. house democrats have an agenda, ....
Under monday s tentative agreement which has to be fleshed out by congressional staff the white house would get money for a barrier, 1.3 billion as bill pointed out, far less than asked for by the president and would amount to, as some congressional officials labeled it a bit of a down payment. democrats gave up on a demand to lower the cap on detention beds. you look at 55 miles of new border barrier. news of that tentative agreement happened just as the president was speaking to tens of thousands thousands last night in el paso, texas, as was, by the way, beto o rourke. president trump: we were all challenged by a young man who lost an election to ted cruise so we have let s say 35,000 people tonight and he has 200 people, 300 people. not too good. walls do not save lives. walls end lives. ....