WASHINGTON _ While President Donald Trump is gambling with his political capital in a fight with Democrats over his signature campaign promise _ the "big, beautiful wall" along the Mexico border _ another campaign promise to cut regulations and ease federal bureaucracy for businesses has stalled.
Business leaders say brewers can't get tax stickers to sell their beer. Federal reviews of mergers and acquisitions have been suspended. Small business can't receive help from the Small Business Administration.
The record-breaking shutdown _ now in its fifth week _ could also jeopardize passage of one of Trump's key trade priorities, ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The agency working on an economic assessment report for Congress, the United States International Trade Commission, has been closed. But that's not all.
