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Trump holds off on declaring emergency to build border wall

'I'm not going to do it so fast,' the president said at a border-security roundtable at the White House Friday.

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Ginsburg is cancer-free, will return to work, Supreme Court says

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is cancer-free and will participate in pending Supreme Court cases, a court spokeswoman said Friday.

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Federal workers miss first paycheck as shutdown poised to become longest in U.S. history

The last government shutdown to have lasted this long was in 1996, when President Bill Clinton and the GOP-controlled Congress were at loggerheads.

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An emergency declaration may be the shutdown off-ramp. But what about the consequences?

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First Read's Morning Clips: Federal workers protest shutdown

A roundup of the most important political news stories of the day

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America held 'hostage': Kamala Harris, eyeing 2020, slams Trump over the shutdown

"The president is holding the American people hostage over this vanity project. This is a crisis of his own making," Harris said.

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'There's no money': Shutdown freezes HUD funds for the elderly

"If something major broke, I wouldn't have the funds to replace it," said a manager of an affordable housing building for seniors in Florida.

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Pelosi blasts treasury secretary after briefing for 'wasting' lawmakers' time

Pelosi called it one "one of the worst classified briefings we've received from the Trump administration," despite "stiff competition"

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Long shot Senate effort to end shutdown stalemate comes to a quick end

A last-ditch effort to re-open the government ended just 24 hours after it began in yet another sign that the government shutdown is nowhere near ending.

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Trump could take billions from disaster areas to fund wall

Under the proposal, Trump could dip into money set aside to fund civil works projects all over the country including storm-damaged areas of Puerto Rico.

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On the border, Trump turns political in making case for his wall

Wearing a MAGA hat and harshly criticizing Democrats, President Donald Trump made the case for a border wall near the U.S.-Mexico line Thursday.

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Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to testify publicly before Congress in February

Cohen was sentenced last month to three years in prison.

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Trump scraps Davos trip

The president won't rub elbows with world's elites during fight over the border wall and government shutdown.

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Pelosi says Republicans will oppose Trump if he declares a national emergency over wall

The president is heading to the border Thursday and said as he left Washington that he "probably" will declare a national emergency if he can't get Congress to appropriate wall funding

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Trump: I'll 'probably' declare a national emergency over border — just not yet

"I'm not prepared to do that yet, but if I have to, I will," the president told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House.

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White House beefs up legal team with 17 new attorneys to battle Democrats, Mueller

Such a strategy could quickly inflame tensions between Trump and congressional Democrats and could lead to lengthy legal battles.

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On Day 20, the shutdown is all about political pain, not gain

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

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First Read's Morning Clips: The shutdown is costing $1 billion per week

A roundup of the most important political news stories of the day

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In test, steel prototype for border wall was cut through with saw

NBC News obtained a photo showing results of a test on a steel wall prototype.

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The 'doomsday' scenario: Here's what happens if the shutdown drags on

Economists warn that a catastrophe is in the making if the partial government closure continues for weeks or months.