Yet for a second year, he has received but a small installment from a Republican-controlled Congress. Because Trump had repeatedly threatened to shutter the government if he didn’t get his wall money, only his signature finally put Republican leaders’ fears to rest. 7, avoiding a politically damaging shutdown that Republican lawmakers had feared just weeks before the November congressional elections. The bill keeps the government operating through Dec. President Trump’s “big beautiful wall” along the nearly 2,000-mile southern border - the defining promise of his campaign and now his presidency - took a quiet yet potentially fatal hit Friday when he signed a government funding bill with a small fraction of the $25 billion he has asked for.
