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• Pelosi on Trump’s push for border wall: ‘It’s like a manhood thing for him’
  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi struck where she thought President Trump was most vulnerable – his manhood. In an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, Trump said Tuesday that he would be “proud” to shut down the government in order to get Congress to fund the border wall he campaigned on. Pelosi ... read more
  Source: LA TimesPublished on 2018-12-11
• House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi questions Trump’s manhood after confrontational White House meeting
  Upon returning to the Capitol, the congresswoman spoke behind closed doors to Democratic lawmakers and described the party leadership’s opposition to billions of dollars more for President Trump’s border wall. “It’s like a manhood thing for him. As if manhood could ever be associated with him. This wall thing,” Pelosi ... read more
  Source: Washington PostPublished on 2018-12-11
• Trump’s arguments for necessity of border wall have already been broadly debunked
  Drugs? Disease? Terrorists? All questionable, at best. ... read more
  Source: Washington PostPublished on 2018-12-11
• Trump says he would be ‘proud’ to shut down the government over border wall funding
  President Trump would be “proud” to shut down the government if he can’t get taxpayer money to build a wall on the southern border, he told House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer in an extraordinary Oval Office sparring session held partly in front of ... read more
  Source: LA TimesPublished on 2018-12-11
• Americans, reality generally disagree with Trump’s strategy on border wall funding
  Polling and data from the border show that Trump's arguments are not working or are inaccurate. ... read more
  Source: Washington PostPublished on 2018-12-11
• The Energy 202: Trump’s border wall would hurt Texas wildlife, government experts warned
  But their concerns never made it to border officials. ... read more
  Source: Washington PostPublished on 2018-12-11
• The Daily 202: Two in three Republicans would rather see a shutdown than Trump compromise on the border wall
  Why both sides are moving further apart in negotiations. ... read more
  Source: Washington PostPublished on 2018-12-11

RESOURCES

CASE AGAINST THE WALL

The Environmental Cost of Trump’s Border Wall – Center for Western Priorities
Why we don’t need Trump’s ‘great, great wall’ – Arizona Daily Star
New Border Walls Designed to Flood Texas Towns – Texas Observer
Border Lawmakers Balk at Donald Trump’s Wall Request – Wall Street Journal
Scientists say Trump’s border wall would devastate wildlife habitat – The Texas Tribune
Surprising Lives of Those Living Along U.S.-Mexico Border – National Geographic
There’s a better alternative to building a border wall: restoring the Rio Grande – Quartz
The environmental impact of the US-Mexico Border Wall – Newsweek
Why Trump’s wall won’t stretch ‘from sea to shining sea’ – Washington Post
The Founders would have opposed seizing land for Trump’s border wall – Washington Post

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