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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Aug 25, 2017
After President Donald Trump remarked that he would shut down the federal government unless Congress funded a proposed border wall with Mexico, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander said yesterday that he “wasn’t elected to shut down the government,” the Tennessean reports. “I was elected to make it run for the benefit of taxpayers,” Alexander said. He added that he hoped the president and lawmakers could resolve differences of opinion in a productive way.