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Border Blues: A senior White House official and two senior House Republican aides told The Atlantic that President Trump is threatening to veto a $1.3 trillion government spending bill over border-wall funding measures. Read Elaina Plott’s report. Although the president looked at eight prototypes for the wall during his recent visit to California, construction of his key campaign promise is unlikely to get further underway unless Congress dedicates more funds to the project.

Sources close to Kellyanne Conway say she’s close to accepting the president’s offer to as one senior White House official put it, “It’s becoming increasingly about his foreign policy.

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