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if Donald Trump wants them to be paid.

And so, for example, here is our Pablo Manriquez, our Washington correspondent who works for Migrant Insider.

Here is Pablo Manriquez asking Tom Tillis, Republican senator, about this very issue.

I think there is enough latitude to make the argument that they could and that may be a device we use if we can't reach an agreement.

And they couldn't reach an agreement because Trump would not let them, but that ended up being the device that they were able to use.

And it was due to relentless questioning of these lawmakers that they finally had to fold and say, oh, I guess, you know, once you admit that, you admit that you manufactured the whole crisis.

And once Trump makes his post that says, I've decided to pay him,

It shows again, you've manufactured this entire crisis.

And the fact that he's manufacturing crises here at home domestically, while he has manufactured these crises that are now very real and growing abroad, shows that this guy is just all about crisis.

He's all about destruction and pulling everybody into his web of just insanity.

Because the markets today had their worst day since the war began.

And so after that happened, he's like, I gotta do something right now.

So much of what's happening, and it's sick because this is a war with lives on the line, but it feels like most of Donald Trump's decisions right now are being made

by the markets, by how scared he is of the markets or what the yields are looking like.

And I've actually seen there are analysts who put together essentially a taco chart that tracks the five-year yields and tracks the stock market and tracks all these other metrics.

And when they reach a certain point, they've realized that's when Donald Trump faults.

That's when he tacos.

And so we're seeing those same pressures right now go through the system.

Today was one of those days.

And so that's why I think we saw Donald Trump's comments extending this pause to try to hope that he could trick the markets tomorrow morning.