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Trump says trade deal pays for border wall, Democrats scoff

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Trump says trade deal pays for border wall, Democrats scoffThe Republican president vowed during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign to build a wall along the border with Mexico to slow the flow of illegal immigration, and he has long pledged that Mexico – not U.S. taxpayers – would fund it. In a Twitter post early on Thursday, Trump said that unspecified savings for the United States as a result of the renegotiated trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada would pay for the wall. “Just by the money we save, MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!,” he wrote.