MICHAEL WALSH: NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR THE WHITE HOUSE; not least of which is:

Build the “danged fence.” Finding the funds won’t get any easier next year with the opposition party controlling the purse strings, but if the slow-motion invasion from Latin America isn’t a matter of national security, what is? The president insists he’s prepared to keep the government partially closed until he gets the $5 billion he’s requested, and he’s also floated the idea of using the military and its fungible budget to build it, which may turn out to be his best option. But build it he must: nothing will dishearten Trump’s base more — and ensure his defeat in 2020 — than welshing on his promise to end illegal immigration.

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