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Ann Coulter says Trump is dead in the water if he doesnt build that wall: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter is reiterating her warnings about President Donald Trumps political prospects if he doesnt deliver on a signature issue, as she assesses why he is digging in his heels on his proposed wall for the southern border.

It is self-preservation, because he is dead in the water if he does not build that wall. Dead, dead, dead, she said, according to a Newsweek report citing a Vice News interview that aired Tuesday.

Coulter criticized Trump for being the worst negotiator God ever created for his failure to reach an agreement with the Democrats to end the partial government shutdown, which was triggered by a dispute over wall funding. She also said she has been advising the president since Election Day.

T-Mobiles stays at Trump hotel stands out: One day after T-Mobile US Inc. TMUS, +1.07% announced a $26 billion merger with Sprint Corp. S, +1.00% that needed the Trump administrations approval, nine of the wireless carriers executives had reservations at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., said a Washington Post report on the turn of events last spring.

Trumps hotel also has rented hundreds of rooms to lobbyists paid by Saudi Arabia and hosted a large meeting of the oil industrys lobbying group, but the T-Mobile case stands out because the companys executives were expected so soon after announcing they needed a win in Washington, the Post report said.

Its disturbing, because its another secret avenue for currying favor with the government, Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan watchdog group, told the newspaper.

Eric Trump, running the family business while his father serves in the White House, told the paper that the hotel has absolutely no role in politics, adding that it offers extraordinary service so it should come as no surprise that T-Mobile CEO John Legere would stay there repeatedly.

Shutdown leads to an Armed Forces branch missing out on pay for the first time in our nations history: The countrys 42,000 active-duty Coast Guard members have missed out on scheduled paychecks, as the only military branch to work without pay during the partial government shutdown, notes an NBC News report.

To the best of my knowledge, this marks the first time in our Nations history that servicemembers in a U.S. Armed Force have not been paid during a lapse in appropriations, said Adm. Karl Schultz, the Coast Guards commandant, in a tweet.

Bipartisan Problem Solvers group to meet with Trump as shutdown continues: A bipartisan group of House members was due to go to the White House for a meeting at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday, Politico reported, adding that it didnt expect much from the meeting.

The group, which self-identifies as the Problem Solvers Caucus, is probably the group least representative of where most Republicans and Democrats are at the moment, Politicos report added.

Meanwhile, some senators are discussing sending a bipartisan letter to Trump pledging to work together on border security if the shutdown ends, according to a separate Politico article.

Senate and House leaders have said they will cancel the Martin Luther King Day Jr. recess for Congress unless there is a sudden resolution to the 26-day government shutdown, which appears unlikely given a breakdown in high-level talks, according to a Hill article.

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