(The Hill)
Brett Samuels 02/13/19 10:40 AM
President Trump appears increasingly likely to sign border security legislation to avert another government shutdown that would begin on Saturday.
The president and his allies have expressed dismay at an agreement reached this week by a bipartisan group of lawmakers but have downplayed talk of shutting down the government for a second time this year.
Instead, the president’s surrogates have given indications that Trump will sign off on the bill to keep the government open and secure wall funding through other means to build his long-desired wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We want to see what the final piece of legislation looks like. It’s hard to say definitively whether or not the president is going to sign it until we know everything that’s in it,” press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters at the White House on Wednesday.
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