California kills its high-speed rail. The 2020 Democrats face some campaign troubles,

and Ilhan Omar escapes culpability once again. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Alrighty, so, Laden news to get to today. We are going to get into, in detail,

a bunch of Democratic proposals that even they do not take seriously.

It's the reason why President Trump's approval rating has risen seven points over the last month,

even according to the sort of real clear politics poll average.

We'll get to all of that in just one second.

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avert another U.S. government shutdown, according to Reuters. It's a bad deal. It's a bad deal.

This deal basically gives the president something like $1.375 billion for border security. It allows him to build another 55 miles offense, maybe.

It's not what he was looking for. It's actually less money

allocated to border security than was allocated to border security in the original budget that

was proposed by Democrats back in November that President Trump turned down. Now, the saving

graces that President Trump is likely to declare under 10 U.S.C. 284 that drug corridors must

have additional fencing bill, which he can do.

He can have the Defense Department mobilize and redirect funds for that purpose. He's likely to do

some of that. He's also illustrated that Democrats are full-scale crazy on the subject of a border

wall when he did his big event on Monday night in El Paso. He was talking about the necessity

for a border wall standing about a thousand feet maybe from the border fencing between El Paso and Mexico. And meanwhile, Beto O'Rourke was standing a thousand feet from him and was saying that walls are terrible. There was a wall at Beto O'Rourke's rally, by the way, to prevent people from encroaching onto the territory of Beto O'Rourke's rally, even as he was

proclaiming that walls were really, really bad. On Wednesday, CNN, the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal all reported that Trump intended to sign the measure into law if it passes Congress. Representatives for the White House could not be reached immediately for comment. Trump on Tuesday did not rule out vetoing the legislation. He said he was not happy with the deal, but he's not going to get into another shutdown here. Again, is it a bad deal? Did President Trump do a bad job of negotiating this thing? Yeah, he did. I mean, he went into a poker hand and he was bluffing from the very outset. Democrats knew that he was bluffing. They kept upping the ante. And President Trump was not willing to try to buy the pot, basically.

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