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President Trump insisted Tuesday that the border wall "will get built.”
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President Trump that the border wall “will get built,” despite backing down on demands to fund the project in this week’s spending bill. A federal judge in San Francisco a portion of Trump’s January executive order on immigration aimed at cutting federal funding to so-called “sanctuary cities.” The leaders of the House Oversight Committee Trump’s former National Security two death-row inmates, Jack Harold Jones and Marcel Wayne Williams, making it the first state to execute two inmates back-to-back since 2000. Ivanka Trump women’s entrepreneurship at a summit in Berlin during her first trip abroad as an official representative of the United States.

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