10 things you need to know today: December 30, 2018

Trump says he is waiting for Democrats to 'come on over and make a deal,' Trump blames Democrats for migrant children's deaths, and more

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump
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1. Trump says he is waiting for Democrats to 'come on over and make a deal'

"I am in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security," President Trump tweeted Saturday. "From what I hear, they are spending so much time on Presidential Harassment that they have little time left for things like stopping crime and our military!" The military is fully funded and has not been affected by the partial government shutdown. Most law enforcement in the United States is conducted at the state or local level and thus is also not affected. Trump forced the shutdown to obtain funding for border wall construction.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.