Subject: Re: Trump: I Would Encourage Russia...
It could have been some other number.

Heh. I asked 50 times on this board and got crickets. Why was that?

You have no idea whether there was any willingness to budge, because the process was killed before any back-and-forth from interests outside the negotiators took place. Johnson killed the bill, so McConnell stopped the Senate process, long before there was any horse-trading from outside the negotiating group.

Maybe because the bill was never teh border security panacea some think it is.