MUST READ: Is this the trick that President Trump has up his sleeve?
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In the last few days, Trump has seemed way too sanguine about the outcome of the conference committee trying to hash out a budget resolution … especially since the best case (from Trump’s perspective) is a token amount of money that is tightly specified so that it’s not to be used to construct a “wall”.
Trump also has signaled that he won’t force another government shutdown and won’t declare a national emergency … and, indicated that he might be able to operate under existing “executive authority“.
So, what’s he got up his sleeve?
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In a prior post, we posed a gut-check question for Pelosi (and anybody else) who says that walls are immoral and don’t work:
Should the border wall between San Diego and Tijuana be torn down?
Well, late Friday afternoon when the media was busy with the Bezos and Virginia fiascos, the San Diego – Tijuana story took a strange twist.
The DHS issued a press release headlined “DHS Issues Waiver to Expedite Secondary Fence Replacement Project in San Diego“.

click to view the press release on the DHS site
This may be a signal of what’s to come, so let’s drill down on it…
