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| Trump unmoved on border wall demand as shutdown enters ninth day | Trump unmoved on border wall demand as shutdown enters ninth day |
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| With time dwindling before a new Congress is sworn in, Donald Trump has not budged in his demand for billions in funding for a border wall, narrowing prospects for a government shutdown to end immediately when the legislature reconvenes. | With time dwindling before a new Congress is sworn in, Donald Trump has not budged in his demand for billions in funding for a border wall, narrowing prospects for a government shutdown to end immediately when the legislature reconvenes. |
| John Kelly: judge me on what Trump didn't do while I was chief of staff | John Kelly: judge me on what Trump didn't do while I was chief of staff |
| Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives on 3 January. Through the weekend, Trump stuck to his strategy of trying to foist blame for the shutdown, now in its ninth day, on the opposition party. | |
| Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday the president was waiting for Democrats to negotiate over border wall funding. Democrats have accused Trump of derailing the operations of government in a misguided effort to advance a pet policy. | |
| “He’s in the White House,” Conway told CNN’s State of the Union. “He’s in Washington ready to negotiate.” | |
| Trump noted on Twitter on Saturday that his border wall plan has failed to gain the support it needs: of at least 10 Democrats in the Senate. | |
| “Now we have to do it the hard way, with a Shutdown,” Trump wrote. | “Now we have to do it the hard way, with a Shutdown,” Trump wrote. |
| Most voters, however, appear to be aligned with Democrats, who when not pointing to Trump’s campaign promise that Mexico would pay for the wall, contend that there is little need for it. | Most voters, however, appear to be aligned with Democrats, who when not pointing to Trump’s campaign promise that Mexico would pay for the wall, contend that there is little need for it. |
| At least 56% of Americans oppose Trump’s border wall idea, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released on Friday. Democrats won overwhelming victories in the November midterm elections by opposing Trump’s immigration proposals. | At least 56% of Americans oppose Trump’s border wall idea, according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released on Friday. Democrats won overwhelming victories in the November midterm elections by opposing Trump’s immigration proposals. |
| Members of Trump’s inner circle have admitted as much, with outgoing chief of staff John Kelly saying in an interview published on Sunday the proposal for increased border security was “not a wall”. | Members of Trump’s inner circle have admitted as much, with outgoing chief of staff John Kelly saying in an interview published on Sunday the proposal for increased border security was “not a wall”. |
| Trump has also blamed the deaths of migrant children in US custody on Democrats, tweeting on Saturday that “any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies”. | |
| Amid criticism of the president’s words, Conway sought to turn the tables, telling CNN: “I don’t like some of these Democrats using these deaths as political pawns.” | |
| She added: “The president does not want these children taking these perilous journeys. Some of them are paying the ultimate price.” | |
| But former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat openly considering a run for the White House in 2020, told CNN the president’s reaction to the deaths of the migrant children was inexcusable, calling it “the lowest act I have ever seen [from] any president in the history of this country”. | |
| To end the shutdown, Trump could agree to sign some version of a spending bill passed before the Christmas holiday by the Republicans in the Senate. It did not supply the $5bn in funding for a wall that he has since demanded. | |
| Speaking to CNN, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham speculated that Democrats might be willing to concede some “wall-slash-border security funding” in exchange for Republican concessions on protections for undocumented US residents who arrived as children. | |
| “There will never be a deal without wall funding,” Graham said. | |
| While the shutdown goes on, hundreds of thousands of federal workers remain without pay, either on duty or forcibly off it and facing increasing hardship. Key functions at agencies tasked with stewardship of the environment, agriculture and other sectors are also beginning to be affected. | While the shutdown goes on, hundreds of thousands of federal workers remain without pay, either on duty or forcibly off it and facing increasing hardship. Key functions at agencies tasked with stewardship of the environment, agriculture and other sectors are also beginning to be affected. |
| This week, Trump claimed without evidence that most workers affected by the shutdown “are Democrats”. | This week, Trump claimed without evidence that most workers affected by the shutdown “are Democrats”. |
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