Border deal agreed to ‘in principle’ (don’t hold your breath) (updated)

Monday night, House and Senate negotiators on Monday night agreed in principle to provide $1.375 billion for fencing and other physical barriers at the Mexican border, part of a broader agreement that would stave off another partial government shutdown without funding President Trump’s wall. Border Deal Is Reached ‘in Principle’:

The agreement would allow for 55 miles of new bollard fencing, with some restrictions on location based on community and environmental concerns, according to two congressional aides, who requested anonymity to disclose details of the private negotiations. This is only a fraction of the more than 200 miles of steel-and-concrete wall that Mr. Trump demanded — and 10 miles less than negotiators agreed on last summer, before Democrats took control of the House.

The agreement “in principle” must still pass the House and the Senate, and secure President Trump’s signature.

Good luck with that. The racist polemicists of the alt-right who make up Trump’s unofficial “kitchen cabinet” of advisers and who were responsible for the Trump Shutdown last month are already trashing this agreement “in principle.”

Trump’s minister of propaganda at Fox News aka Trump TV, Sean Hannity, the man whom Trump talks to most nights before going to bed, was already trashing the deal Monday night. ‘Garbage compromise’: Hannity warns Republicans not to back spending deal:

President Donald Trump’s most ardent cable news defender cut away briefly from the president’s Monday night rally in El Paso, Texas, to issue a warning to Republican lawmakers: Don’t back congressional negotiators’ latest border deal.

“On this new, so-called compromise, I’m getting details,” said Fox News host Sean Hannity, referring to the tentative agreement reached by a bipartisan conference committee that would allocate roughly $1.375 billion for physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“1.3 billion? That’s not a — not even a wall, a barrier?” Hannity said.

“I’m going to tell this tonight and we will get back into this tomorrow,” he continued. “Any Republican that supports this garbage compromise, you will have to explain.”

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