{"id":34193,"date":"2018-12-13T19:04:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34193"},"modified":"2018-12-13T19:04:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T19:04:17","slug":"trump-on-the-wall-wholl-pay-for-it-and-that-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34193","title":{"rendered":"Trump on the wall, who&#8217;ll pay for it and that shutdown . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump is sending a dizzying array of mixed messages &#8212; on a single issue all by itself.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The president wants to build a &#8220;big, beautiful wall&#8221; along our southern border.<\/li>\n<li>He insisted again today that Mexico is going to pay for the wall; Mexico&#8217;s government has said it won&#8217;t do as the president insists.<\/li>\n<li>Democrats in Congress say that Trump&#8217;s insistence that Mexico pay for the wall takes Congress off the hook; there&#8217;s no need for Congress to worry about the money.<\/li>\n<li>Thus, we need not worry about a government shutdown, which Trump insists will happen if Congress doesn&#8217;t cough up $5 billion to pay for the wall that he insists Mexico will finance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you as confused as I am? If so, then I don&#8217;t feel so badly.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot keep up with Donald Trump&#8217;s messy mix of messages.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump is sending a dizzying array of mixed messages &#8212; on a single issue all by itself. The president wants to build a &#8220;big, beautiful wall&#8221; along our southern border. He insisted again today that Mexico is going to pay for the wall; Mexico&#8217;s government has said it won&#8217;t do as the president insists. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump on the wall, who&#8217;ll pay for it and that shutdown . . .<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7074,1112,1343,1424,1978],"class_list":["post-34193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-build-the-wall","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34194,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34193\/revisions\/34194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}