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President Donald #Trump has made no secret of the fact that he thinks lawmakers are wasting their time trying to come up with a funding solution for #bordersecurity. But the 17 members of Congress tasked with reaching that compromise are just trying to forge ahead. Staffers worked over the weekend to hammer out a deal.

But while members of the committee are still expressing optimism they can work something out, there is a sense, even within the Republican Party, that the President’s comments pose a stumbling block, and that he is trying to control an appropriations process he doesn’t understand.


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How President Trump's Sniping Is Hurting Bipartisan Border Talks
http://time.com/5519543/donald-trump-shutdown-border-security-emergency-declaration/

President Donald #Trump faces a very tough road to a second term in 2020. His job approval numbers are mired in the low 40s, Democrats loathe him, a significant chunk of Republicans want someone else as their nominee and, on top of all of that, special counsel #RobertMueller is still working on his report about Russian interference in the 2016 election.

But it's not all dark clouds for Trump. Because in at least one respect, he will have something that he never had in 2016 - and something that none of his potential 2020 Democratic opponents will have either: massive amounts of money (and the time to use it as he sees fit.) In his first 2 years in office, Trump raised $130m for his 2020 race - and has spent all but $19mn of it. Those numbers are absolutely without any modern comparison - as both George W. Bush and Barack Obama largely eschewed raising money for their re-election in their first two years in the White House.


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Donald Trump's BIG 2020 edge
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/01/politics/donald-trump-2020-election/index.html

The German banking powerhouse is under renewed scrutiny for its ties to #Trump during the years he was a New York City real estate magnate, a relationship Democrats intend to probe now that they’ve recaptured the majority in the House of Representatives. A 2018 financial disclosure form showed liabilities for Trump of at least $130m to #DeutscheBank Trust Company Americas, a unit of the German bank. They are for properties including D.C.’s Trump International Hotel, located in a former post office in the nation’s capital.


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Deutsche Bank reportedly refused to give Trump a loan during the 2016 campaign: NY Times
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/02/deutsche-bank-refused-to-give-trump-a-loan-during-campaign-says-report.html

When President #Trump delivers his #StateoftheUnion address on Tuesday (Feb 5), he can quite justifiably say that the state of the #economy is good. Unemployment is low, inflation is muted and growth has continued unabated for nearly 10 years. Mr. Trump controls #economicpolicy, not the economy, and so a fairer report card would also assess his actual policies. What is startling is that the economists are nearly unanimous in concluding that Mr. Trump’s policies are destructive. That is why many economists are uneasy about his presidency, even though the economy earns solid grades.

Mr. Trump’s #protectionist impulses place him squarely at odds with the economic wisdom that tariffs are harmful. Mr. Trump’s #fiscalpolicy is a colossal failure. His signature achievement is a $1.5tn tax cut that provided stimulus when, arguably, it was least needed. Mr. Trump’s luck was to inherit an economy that had been on a steadily improving glide path since around 2010. Charting nearly any economic statistic shows that today’s economic strength represents a continuation of that trend.


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An A- for the #USEconomy, but Failing Grades for Trump’s Policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/business/us-economy-trump-taxes-trade.html