And he’s already taken the blame for it,” Tyler said, predicting that Trump will approve whatever Congress gives him. The U.S. Secret Service is among the half-dozen agencies in the quarter-million-employee DHS, which also includes the U.S. Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration. Many of the affected employees would be deemed essential and be forced to work anyway. Since that January 2017 conversation, Trump has signed a half-dozen spending bills that cover DHS even though they included no money to build his wall. But he shouldn’t use innocent workers as hostage for his temper tantrum to sort of throw a bone to his base.”

Source: Huffington Post December 18, 2018 00:16 UTC