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Democrats are said to be confident that they will win the shutdown over border security — that President Donald Trump will cave to their demands and sign a spending bill to re-open all federal government departments without receiving any funding for his border wall.

The government office overseeing the nation’s food stamp program will slim down 95 percent of its operations by the fifth day of the government shutdown, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) documents outlining shutdown contingency plans.

Monday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh urged President Donald Trump to not back down on funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall despite the current government shutdown. Limbaugh said the Democrats owned the shutdown, even though

President Donald Trump said the United States needed more border security, during remarks to reporters on Christmas Day at the White House.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed to reporters that the president would remain at the White House, while First Lady Melania Trump would return from their Mar-a-Lago resort to spend Christmas together with the family.

The Trump administration continues to fight for $5 billion in border security and barrier funding from Congress during a government shutdown they are trying to make as “painless as possible.”

President Donald Trump pointed to his 2016 win, crediting it in part to a platform of strong borders as he fought Saturday for $5 billion in border barrier and security funding.

President Donald Trump said he was prepared for a “long shutdown” on Friday, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer refused to support the House-passed bill to fund the government.

President Donald Trump urged Senator Mitch McConnell and Republicans in the Senate on Friday to fight to pass funding for border security.

President Donald Trump called for a meeting with House Republicans on Thursday, signaling that he did not want to move forward to fund the government without additional funds for border security.

If you were elected president, and your central campaign promise — repeated every day — was to build a wall, wouldn’t you have spent the entirety of your transition period working on getting it done? 

White House Senior Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway said in an interview with Fox News that Trump would consider a continuing resolution to keep the government operating until February 8th.

“We’ll see what happens, it’s too early to tell,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday at the White House. “We need border security.”

The White House signaled Tuesday that President Donald Trump may find other ways to fund a border wall, in an effort to prevent as a partial government shutdown.

President Donald Trump’s senior advisor Stephen Miller appeared on Fox News on Thursday to defend progress on the southern border wall.

President Donald Trump signed a stop-gap bill on Friday to postpone a fight over a possible partial government shutdown until right before Christmas.

The president has threatened a partial shutdown of the government if Congress fails to include $5 billion of additional wall funding into the bill.

“This would be a very good time to do a shutdown,” Trump said.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) seems to think the 1990s never ended. For the second time this year, he has called on the Democrats’ playbook from the Clinton era. And for the second time, he has failed, spectacularly.

President Donald Trump said he would not force a government shutdown over wall funding and border security before the midterm elections, suggesting that he made a deal with House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“You know who thinks it should be before?” he asked. “Rush Limbaugh says it should be before the election, Sean Hannity, a lot of them. Great people.”

President Donald Trump threatened a government shutdown if Congress failed to fund his border security and immigration reform priorities, but the White House stressed that the fight could be postponed until after the mid-term elections.

President Donald Trump praised talk radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday, saying “Rush Limbaugh is a great guy who truly gets it!” in a simple Twitter message.

President Donald Trump again signaled his support for the wall Monday, after threatening to shut down the government if Congress failed to deliver construction funding.

Actress Bette Midler took to Twitter late Thursday night and responded to Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) refusal to allow a vote to end debate on the government funding bill, by suggesting that the man who violently beat Paul should do it again.

The U.S. Senate voted to fund the government through March 23 in the early hours of Friday morning, potentially setting up an end to the new shutdown only hours after it began at midnight.

The two-year budget plan announced Wednesday by top Senate leaders has caused an apparent split between Sen. Minority Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says the Democrats are less likely to attempt to shut down the federal government this month in order to demand amnesty for illegal aliens “given how badly they misjudged” the lack of support for such an effort last month.

Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer is continuing to push his impeachment agenda as the Democratic Party faces new divisions in the wake of its embarrassing capitulation to President Donald Trump in the recent shutdown fight.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) believes the recent three-day government shutdown and the deal to end it on Monday gave Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and other illegal immigrant Dreamers “a better chance” of getting a pathway to citizenship.

“I am pleased that Democrats in Congress have come to their senses and are now willing to fund our great military, border patrol, first responders, and insurance for vulnerable children,” Trump said in a statement released by the White House.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a rising potential presidential contender in 2020, voted against a bill to re-open the federal government on Monday, arguing that the budget should have done more to protect illegal aliens.

The Pentagon said Sunday that troops serving overseas can now watch two channels during the shutdown — a news channel and a sports channel.

On this week’s edition of Breitbart News Sunday, broadcast live on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 from 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Eastern, Breitbart News’ Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle and Deputy Political Editor Amanda House will discuss the latest government shutdown news and Congress’s battle over the future of American immigration policy.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) on Saturday offered to go the U.S.-Mexico border with bricks and mortar to help build the border wall in exchange for a permanent Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) fix. “I’ll take a bucket, take bricks, and start building it myself,” Gutierrez reportedly said. “We will dirty our hands in order for the Dreamers to have a clean future in America.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), speaking from the House floor Saturday morning, called the government shutdown a “shakedown strategy” that Senate Democrats were talked into by their base.