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    Home Politics POLITICO Trump digs in on border wall as shutdown enters third week

    POLITICO Trump digs in on border wall as shutdown enters third week

     
    • Slide 1 of 52: U.S. President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet meeting on day 12 of the partial U.S. government shutdown at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 2, 2019.
    • Slide 2 of 52: US President Donald Trump, with Vice President Mike Pence (L) and Republican US Representative Kevin McCarthy (R), speaks at a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 4, 2019. - Trump met with congressional leaders as the government shutdown continues. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Slide 3 of 52: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) speak to reporters following a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the ongoing partial government shutdown at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 4, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Young
    • Slide 4 of 52: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, CA - JANUARY 04: The entrance gate to a campground is locked at Joshua Tree National Park on January 4, 2019 in Joshua Tree National Park, California. Campgrounds and some roads have been closed at the park due to safety concerns as the park is drastically understaffed during the partial government shutdown. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
    • Slide 5 of 52: US President Donald Trump listens as Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 4, 2019. - Trump met with congressional leaders as the government shutdown continues. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Slide 6 of 52: U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY),House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) face reporters following a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on the ongoing partial government shutdown at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 4, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Young
    • Slide 7 of 52: WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 04: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Secretary for the Majority Laura Dove head to the floor to open the session at the U.S. Capitol January 04, 2019 in Washington, DC. McConnell and other Congressional leaders met Friday with President Donald Trump at the White House but were unable to reach a compromise to end a partial federal government shutdown. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
    • Slide 8 of 52: Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., is followed by reporters as he returns to Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, following a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
    • Slide 9 of 52: U.S. President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office followed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (L) and Vice President Mike Pence (R) to speak to reporters in the Rose Garden after a meeting with U.S. Congressional leaders about the government shutdown at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 4, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
    • Slide 10 of 52: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders talks to reporters about the government shutdown outside the White House, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, in Washington.
    • Slide 11 of 52: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, joined at right by Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., pushes back on President Donald Trump's demand to fund a wall on the US-Mexico border with the partial government shutdown in its second week, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019.
    • Slide 12 of 52: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., center, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., push back on President Donald Trump's demand for funding to build a wall on the US-Mexico border as the partial government shutdown is in its second week, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019.
    • Slide 13 of 52: President Donald Trump speaks in the press briefing room at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, in Washington. President Trump gave a statement on the government shutdown and border wall in what was his first time behind the podium in the White House briefing room.
    • Slide 14 of 52: The Ryan Visitor Center at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, part of the 27,000-acre Gateway National Recreation Area, which encompasses three boroughs of New York and Monmouth County, New Jersey, remained closed, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, in New York, on Day 12 of a partial government shutdown.
    • Slide 15 of 52: White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway speaks to reporters about the government shutdown outside the White House, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, in Washington.
    • Slide 16 of 52: Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Kevin Hassett speaks to members of the news media on the economy and the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government, outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 03 January 2019. A partial shutdown of the government began when Congress and Trump failed to strike a deal before a 22 December 2018 deadine due to differences regarding border security.
    • Slide 17 of 52: An employee posts a closure sign at the entrance to the Smithsonian American Indian Museum in Washington, DC, USA, 02 January 2019. The Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are now closed to visitors. The US government continues into a twelfth day of a partial shutdown as Congress and US President Donald J. Trump are at an impasse over funding of Trump's proposed southern border barrier.
    • Slide 18 of 52: House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to reporters with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) following a border security briefing with U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional leadership at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 2, 2019..
    • Slide 19 of 52: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is surrounded by reporters as he returns from meeting with President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders at the White House, to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. January 2, 2019.
    • Slide 20 of 52: Christain Saint-Surin, 7 years-old, of Miami, Florida looks inside the National Museum of African American History that is closed due to the partial shutdown of the U.S. government as it goes into the 12th day, on January 2, 2019 in Washington, DC.
    • Slide 21 of 52: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting on day 12 of the partial U.S. government shutdown at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 2, 2019.
    • Slide 22 of 52: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks to reporters as he returns to the Capitol from meeting with President Donald Trump about border security and ending the partial government shutdown, in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019.
    • Slide 23 of 52: The figure of a panda is seen behind a sign telling the public that the National Zoo is closed due to the partial government shutdown in Washington, U.S., January 2, 2019.
    • Slide 24 of 52: Garbage overflows a trash can on the National Mall across from the White House on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. The National Park Service, which is responsible for trash removal, is not operating due to the goverment shut down.
    • Slide 25 of 52: UNITED STATES - JANUARY 1: A U.S. Park Police officer patrols the Lincoln Memorial on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, while most National Park Service employees are furloughed during the government shut down. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    • Slide 26 of 52: A closed sign is displayed at The National Archives entrance in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, as a partial government shutdown stretches into its third week. A high-stakes move to reopen the government will be the first big battle between Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump as Democrats come into control of the House. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
    • Slide 27 of 52: UNITED STATES - JANUARY 1: The Smithsonian and U.S. flags fly in front of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. All Smithsonian museums will close Wednesday due to the government shut down. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    • Slide 28 of 52: Visitors take their pictures at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, as a partial government shutdown stretches into its third week. A high-stakes move to reopen the government will be the first big battle between Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump as Democrats come into control of the House. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
    • Slide 29 of 52: UNITED STATES - JANUARY 1: While the Lincoln Memorial remains open to visitors, some facilities are closed due to the government shut down on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    • Slide 30 of 52: Visitors pass the office of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Capitol in Washington, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018.
    • Slide 31 of 52: Visitors walk at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018.
    • Slide 32 of 52: Capitol Police officers patrol the quiet hallways near the entrance to the Senate at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 31 December 2018..
    • Slide 33 of 52: Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., arrives at the Senate Chamber for an abbreviated pro-forma session at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018, as a partial government shutdown stretches into its second week.
    • Slide 34 of 52: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, after his meeting with President Donald Trump, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018.
    • Slide 35 of 52: Capitol Hill is seen as a partial U.S. government shutdown continues in Washington, U.S., December 30, 2018.
    • Slide 36 of 52: A car drives into Joshua Tree National Park in California past an entrance station closed due to the partial shutdown of the US federal government on December 30, 2018. - The park remains open, but visitor services are not being provided. The shutdown began on December 22, with Congress at loggerheads over whether to include the $5 billion sought by Donald Trump to fund a wall on the border with Mexico, a central pillar of his election campaign and of his presidency.
    • Slide 37 of 52: People congregate at the Charging Bull in lower Manhattan during the holiday week between Christmas and the New Year on December 29, 2018 in New York City. Despite the government shutdown, the Statue of Liberty and the Museum of the American Indian, two major tourists destinations, have so far remained open.
    • Slide 38 of 52: Tourists look at Statue of Liberty statues as they congregate in lower Manhattan during the holiday week between Christmas and the New Year on December 29, 2018 in New York City. Despite the government shutdown, the Statue of Liberty and the Museum of the American Indian, two major tourists destinations, have so far remained open.
    • Slide 39 of 52: Tourists arrive to visit the U.S. Capitol on a rainy morning in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, during a partial government shutdown. The partial government shutdown will almost certainly be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year, as both parties traded blame Friday and President Donald Trump sought to raise the stakes in the weeklong impasse. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    • Slide 40 of 52: A monitor in the House of Representatives displays a schedule update on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, The partial government shutdown will almost certainly be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year, as both parties traded blame Friday and President Donald Trump sought to raise the stakes in the weeklong impasse. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    • Slide 41 of 52: Empty corridors around the Senate chamber are seen at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, during a partial government shutdown. The partial government shutdown will almost certainly be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year, as both parties traded blame Friday and President Donald Trump sought to raise the stakes in the weeklong impasse. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    • Slide 42 of 52: With reporters seeking comment, Republican Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, departs after he opened and closed a brief session of the U.S. Senate amid the partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    • Slide 43 of 52: Tourists walk past a sign near the embarkation point for the Statue of Liberty in New York, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018.
    • Slide 44 of 52: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers check and watch airline passengers at Reagan National Airport in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018.
    • Slide 45 of 52: Photo by ERIK S LESSER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (10042083a) The dome of the US Capitol building at dawn in Washington, DC, USA, 27 December 2018. The US government continues into a sixth day of a partial shutdown as Congress and US President Donald J. Trump are at an impasse on the funding of Trump's proposed southern border barrier. US government in partial shutdown in Washington, DC, USA - 27 Dec 2018
    • Slide 46 of 52: REI Co-op customers stand near an unstaffed ranger station kiosk, closed as part of the federal government shutdown, inside the flagship store Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, in Seattle. The desk is normally staffed by rangers who provide recreational information and passes for public lands in Washington state as part of a partnership with the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Washington State Parks, and REI. The shutdown started Saturday when funding lapsed for nine Cabinet-level departments and dozens of agencies. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
    • Slide 47 of 52: Kevin Hassett, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, speaks to the new media outside the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 26 December 2018.
    • Slide 48 of 52: Office furniture sits in a hallway of the Rayburn House Office building one week before the start of the 116th Congress, on December 26, 2018 in Washington, DC.
    • Slide 49 of 52: Jekabs Vidzis, 8, left, and his brother Margers, 6, visit the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2018. Donations to the National Park Service have allowed the National Christmas Tree to be open during the partial government shutdown.
    • Slide 50 of 52: US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump speak on the telephone as they answers calls from people calling into the NORAD Santa tracker phone line in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 24, 2018.
    • Slide 51 of 52: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers work unpaid on the first day of the US government shutdown, at LAX Airport in Los Angeles, California on December 22, 2018. - The partial US government shutdown is set to stretch on through Christmas as the Senate adjourned with no deal to end it in sight.
    • Slide 52 of 52: U.S. President Donald Trump is applauded by members of Congress and other attendees as he says he will not answer questions from reporters about an impending U.S. Government shutdown during a bill signing ceremony for the “First Step Act” and the “Juvenile Justice Reform Act” in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., December 21, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
    Slide 1 of 52: U.S. President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet meeting on day 12 of the partial U.S. government shutdown at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 2, 2019.
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    A partial US government shutdown began at midnight on Dec. 22, 2018,. when a funding agreement between the Congress and President Trump could not be reached.
    (Pictured) President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet meeting on day 12 of the partial U.S. government shutdown at the White House in Washington, on Jan. 2.
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    President Donald Trump said Saturday that deliberations over funding for increased security measures along the U.S.-Mexico border were continuing this weekend, as a partial government shutdown triggered by partisan debate over his border wall proposal entered its third week.
    “Great support coming from all sides for Border Security (including Wall) on our very dangerous Southern Border,” the president tweeted. “Teams negotiating this weekend! Washington Post and NBC reporting of events, including Fake sources, has been very inaccurate (to put it mildly)!”
    In another post about a half hour later, Trump said congressional Democrats “could solve the Shutdown problem in a very short period of time” by ceding to his demand to fulfill a key campaign promise.
    “All they have to do is approve REAL Border Security (including a Wall), something which everyone, other than drug dealers, human traffickers and criminals, want very badly! This would be so easy to do!” Trump wrote online.
    In a tweet sent just before 10 a.m., the president wrote: "I don’t care that most of the workers not getting paid are Democrats, I want to stop the Shutdown as soon as we are in agreement on Strong Border Security! I am in the White House ready to go, where are the Dems?"
    Trump had previously tweeted without evidence that most furloughed federal workers were Democrats.
    Trump then followed up with another tweet demanding a "WALL!" and another slamming Democrats on appropriating foreign aid but not "properly securing our Border."
    The president then waded into a dispute between a DHS spokesman and CNN over a report published Friday that unpaid TSA workers were calling in sick in increasing numbers, therefore affecting airport operations, bringing his total of shutdown-related tweets to six before noon. He also had tweeted about Kanye West and denying he'd committed campaign finance violations.
    The president previewed the weekend’s talks in a news conference Friday, telling reporters after meeting with Democrats in the Situation Room: “We're going to be very productive over the weekend. I think some tremendous things will happen.”
    He also claimed without evidence that past presidents had encouraged him to build a border wall, and confirmed that he threatened Democratic leaders with a shutdown that could last “months or even years.”




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