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Who gets blamed for a government shutdown?
By Grace Sparks
Trump Claims There Is a Crisis at the Border. What's the Reality? (Published 2019)
By Anjali Singhvi & Joe Ward
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
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Trump is right: Walls work on the southern border
By Ford O'Connell
White House Aides Explore Alternative Ways to Pay for Border Wall
By Kristina Peterson, Peter Nicholas & Michael Charles Bender
Federal workers miss first paycheck as shutdown poised to become longest in U.S. history
By Dartunorro Clark & Tammy Leitner
This Is Now The Longest Government Shutdown in US History
By Abigail Abrams
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
Trump Pulls Back From Declaring a National Emergency to Fund a Wall (Published 2019)
By Maggie Haberman & Annie Karni
Americans blame Trump and GOP much more than Democrats for shutdown, Post-ABC poll finds
By Scott Clement & Dan Balz
Trump's changing vision of the wall
By Aaron Steckelberg & Kate Rabinowitz
'The story keeps changing': Trump falsely asserts he never promised Mexico would directly pay for the border wall
By David Nakamura
Opinion | Democrats were for a wall before they were against it
By Marc Alexander Thiessen