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Trump said Tuesday that he was "not happy" with the tentative deal reached by congressional negotiators late Monday night that falls far short of his original demands. Congress faces a deadline to get a deal passed and signed by Trump before Friday. The agreement, which includes $1.375 billion for a border barrier, falls well short of the $5.7 billion Trump originally demanded for a wall. It even falls short of the $1.6 billion included in a Senate package last year. Still, the measure would avert another government shutdown. Polls showed Trump was largely blamed for the previous 35-day impasse. Even as lawmakers haggled over details of their agreement, the White House had been planning behind the scenes to secure the funds for the wall unilaterally. The White House says Trump is continuing to weigh his options to fund a border wall, which still include taking executive action to secure funding for a wall. It's not clear which combination of act...

Hours before President Trump took the stage at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Sunday night, Rihanna’s “Don’t Stop the Music” reverberated through the 11,000-seat McKenzie Arena. “Trump’s rallies are unlike anything else in politics,” The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker wrote on Twitter, where he described the  scene : staff members throwing Trump T-shirts into the crowd “like a ball game,”  lines  stretching out the doors. “Keep on rockin' to it,” Rihanna’s recorded voice sung out. “Please don’t stop the, please don’t stop the, please don’t stop the music.” But when the pop star learned that her 2007 hit song had been featured at the rally, her response was unambiguous: She did, in fact, want the music to stop. “Not for much longer,” she tweeted, in response to Trump using her song. “... me nor my people would ever be at or around one of those tragic rallies.” Rihanna ✔ @rihanna Not for much longer...me nor my people would e...

Pharrell Williams is not "Happy" that President Donald Trump used his song. The singer, 45, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Trump after the president played Williams' 2014 smash hit "Happy" at a political event in the Midwest Saturday, just hours after nearly a dozen people were gunned down in a Pittsburgh synagogue. “On the day of the mass murder of 11 human beings at the hands of a deranged ‘nationalist,’ you played his song ‘Happy’ to a crowd at a political event in Indiana,” Williams' lawyer, Howard King, wrote in the letter obtained by USA TODAY. Williams' legal team noted that the use of the song was not only poorly timed, but in violation of "copyright infringement" and "trademark rights." "There was nothing ‘happy’ about the tragedy inflicted upon our country on Saturday and no permission was granted for your use of this song for this purpose,” the letter read. The letter made it clear that Williams "...