Wednesday briefing: Trump runs up against a brick wall

Border barrier is met with budget blockade … free schools condemned as huge waste of money … and row over claims about fat and heart healthThe Mexican government has seized on Donald Trump’s problems with his border wall. Apparently emboldened by the president’s failure to squeeze money out of Congress for his pet project, the Mexican finance minister, Luis Videgaray, declared it a “hostile” plan and “absolute waste of money” that Mexico will nev