Then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump walks with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto at the end of their joint statement at Los Pinos, the official presidential residence, in Mexico City on Aug. 31. (Dario Lopez-Mills/Associated Press)
In theory — as stipulated by President Trump countless times on the campaign trail and as reiterated by him on Twitter over the weekend — the construction of a large wall on the United States’ southern border will be paid for by the nation of Mexico. At no point in time has Trump offered a politically feasible explanation for how that payment will occur; in a tweet Sunday, he was more nebulous than normal.
With less than a week to pass a new spending bill, negotiations between the White House, Republicans and Democrats are ramping up to avoid a government shutdown on April 29.(Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)