WSJ Shutdown

@WSJ’s home for news on the partial government shutdown and negotiations over the border wall.

[WSJ Shutdown @WSJshutdown]

Note to followers: This account has been rebranded and will now feature @WSJ and @WSJpolitics news and analysis on the partial government shutdown and negotiations over the border wall.

[Sadie Gurman @sgurman]

Court says Trump administration’s explanations for question don’t match evidence ⁦@brkend⁩ ⁦@JessBravin⁩ https://t.co/TUfmW9nVwI

[Ken Thomas @KThomasDC]

SCOTUS Ruling Effectively Prevents Citizenship Question for Now; Court Says Trump Admin’s Stated Reason for Citizenship Question Appears “Contrived," via @JessBravin @brkend https://t.co/hGbg6Dx7KU

[Vivian Salama @vmsalama]

Good read here by @chadsday on Julian Castro's breakout performance at the first Democratic debate

[Michael C. Bender @MichaelCBender]

At a private meeting in the West Wing yesterday to discuss strategies on USMCA, Pence stunned some biz executives by rehashing the Trump-Pelosi meltdown from Wednesday. “It really wasn’t the time or place,” one participant said.
https://t.co/1fnYA6HaPZ

[Michael C. Bender @MichaelCBender]

Pence team & other senior Trump advisers want to force immediate action on USMCA. But Lighthizer warns that the last time a GOP prez jammed a Dem-controlled House on a trade pact, they lost the Colombia deal in 2008. The speaker at the time: Nancy Pelosi.
https://t.co/1fnYA6HaPZ

[Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus]

Trump says he’s sending a “relatively small” 1,500 troops to the Middle East for “mostly protective” purposes to counter Iran. https://t.co/smCbPVFvEO

[Dion Nissenbaum @DionNissenbaum]

Citing threat from Iran, the Trump administration is sidestepping Congress to green light $8 billion in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE, with side deals for Jordan, Israel and others. Democratic lawmakers are outraged. https://t.co/TInad1XbEL

[Andrew Ackerman @amacker]

The Senate brought back to life a long dormant export-finance agency. https://t.co/fA3tD8JxgE

[Michelle Hackman @MHackman]

A wrenching portrait of the border from @acaldwellwsj: one father and daughter were placed for days in a concrete cell with sink and toylet-no bed. The facility was built for single men to stay hours, not days https://t.co/MxQFGeqVRZ

[Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus]

The Trump administration completed its rule requiring drugmakers to include list prices for most drugs in television ads, pushing ahead with efforts to improve transparency in health-care costs despite opposition from pharmaceutical companies.
https://t.co/2M5K1Zyu1W

[Andrew Ackerman @amacker]

‘When you get a good lender, that’s the last person you want to throw out.’ https://t.co/V0GTcYFv0g via @WSJ

[Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos]

And it was Trump, via Twitter, not Cain, who announced that Cain was bowing out

[Julie Bykowicz @bykowicz]

“You guys did everything to stop me.” How President Trump soured on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
BIG new story from ⁦@learyreports⁩ & Brody Mullins https://t.co/tsAQW2GVbS

[Paul Beckett @paul4thepress]

“You guys did everything to stop me.” How President Trump soured on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington’s largest lobbyist, and worsened its troubles. A great inside Washington story by Brody Mullins and @learyreports https://t.co/OcsSoZ9Yme via @WSJ

[Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus]

New: Armed with hundreds of pages of new revelations of Trump’s efforts to curtail and restrict Mueller, Dems face the politically risky decision of what to do next: Use it to campaign against Trump or try to impeach him first. W/⁦@siobhanehughes⁩ https://t.co/aLyN51RRgu

[Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus]

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters that "countless members of the FBI" had indicated they did not support Comey. She later told Mueller's team that her comment was "not founded on anything," according to the report. https://t.co/Ob55MjE5e6

[Gerald F Seib @GeraldFSeib]

"It also represents a test case in whether a divided capital awash in trivial controversies and angry Twitter-fests can manage a serious debate on an important policy idea." https://t.co/dELrqUHAjq via @WSJ

[Natalie Andrews @natalieandrews]

Pres­i­dent Trump’s news con­fer­ence with Brazil­ian Pres­i­dent Jair Bol­sonaro on Tues­day again put on dis­play an ap­proach to diplo­macy that prizes per­son­al­i­ties. By ⁦@aduehren⁩ https://t.co/I5BZMsVdKv

[Ken Thomas @KThomasDC]

Progressive? Pragmatist? Socialist? Democratic presidential candidates split over how to address their party’s increasingly vocal liberal base, w/ @reidepstein https://t.co/BnCkmLzZO3

[Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos]

The Fed's "dot plot" is causing more grief because as the central bank trims forward guidance from its statement (a consensus document), the dots are bound to get more attention, even though the dots aren't really a product designed to show the consensus https://t.co/Eci0qE1ccM