Border-wall funding confrontation causes longest federal shutdown
Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney who has been a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985 and has been Kentucky's senior U. S. senator since 1999.
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Addison Mitchell McConnell III is an American politician and attorney who has been a United States senator from Kentucky since 1985 and has been Kentucky's senior U. S. senator since 1999.
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Factrail. (2026). Border-wall funding confrontation causes longest federal shutdown. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/border-wall-funding-confrontation-causes-longest-federal-shutdown-2018
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