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CNN Poll: Trump bears most blame for shutdown
By Jennifer Agiesta
Congress approves back pay — eventually — for furloughed federal employees
By Eric Yoder
Trump's Border Wall Contradictions: Fence, Steel Slats Or Concrete Wall?
By Tamara Keith
This Is Now The Longest Government Shutdown in US History
By Abigail Abrams
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Trump Claims There Is a Crisis at the Border. What's the Reality? (Published 2019)
By Anjali Singhvi & Joe Ward
White House Aides Explore Alternative Ways to Pay for Border Wall
By Kristina Peterson, Peter Nicholas & Michael Charles Bender
Trump is right: Walls work on the southern border
By Ford O'Connell
Federal workers miss first paycheck as shutdown poised to become longest in U.S. history
By Tammy Leitner
Trump highlights human trafficking as he calls for 'strong barrier' during visit to US-Mexico border
By Alex Pappas
Trump claims plan to end longest government shutdown in history
By Martin Pengelly & Jamiles Lartey
Trump says he didn't say Mexico would write US a check for border wall. But he did
By Samantha Putterman
This is now the longest government shutdown in US history
By Amanda Sakuma
Who gets blamed for a government shutdown?
By Grace Sparks
Trump Pulls Back From Declaring a National Emergency to Fund a Wall (Published 2019)
By Maggie Haberman & Annie Karni
Analysis | Does Trump really have 'absolute power' to declare a national emergency? Let's examine the statute.
By Andrew Rudalevige
Americans blame Trump and GOP much more than Democrats for shutdown, Post-ABC poll finds
By Scott Clement & Dan Balz
'The story keeps changing': Trump falsely asserts he never promised Mexico would directly pay for the border wall
By David Nakamura
Trump's changing vision of the wall
By Aaron Steckelberg & Kate Rabinowitz
Opinion | Democrats were for a wall before they were against it
By Marc Alexander Thiessen