Trump Sticks It To Gop In Thundering Phoenix Speech

aisenstadt@politico.com (Alex Isenstadt), Politico
Tue, 08/22/2017 - 11:19pm

PHOENIX — President Donald Trump put the Republican Party on notice on Tuesday evening — implicitly attacking two Republican senators on their home turf, threatening a government shutdown over his border wall, and demanding that senators kill the filibuster because it's impeding his agenda.In an often-angry speech here that stretched on for well over an hour, the president returned to many of the same targets he went after on the campaign trail.

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