{"id":8425,"date":"2018-12-29T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2024-09-23T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T04:57:24","slug":"shutdown-will-last-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/shutdown-will-last-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says Shutdown Will Last ‘Until We Have a Wall’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014 Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com \u2014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office on Christmas Day, during the fourth day of the government shutdown, President Trump, when asked when the government would reopen, said, \u201cI can\u2019t tell you when the government\u2019s going to be open. I can tell you it\u2019s not going to be open until we have a wall or fence, whatever they\u2019d like to call it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump refused to sign a bill to continue funding the government past December 21 if he does not get $5 billion to help build a border wall. He blames Democrats for refusing to vote for a House-passed bill that includes the $5.7 billion he wants for the wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump should understand, there are not the votes for the wall in the House or the Senate,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said just days before the shutdown began. \u201cHe is not going to get the wall in any form.\u201d<\/p>\n

AP reported that the White House presented a counteroffer over the weekend to Schumer that is between Trump\u2019s $5.7 billion price tag and the $1.3 billion Democrats have offered, according to budget director Mick Mulvaney. A Democratic aide granted anonymity to discuss the private talks said the White House offered $2.5 billion \u2014 an initial $2.1 billion plus $400 million Democrats called a \u201cslush fund\u201d for the president\u2019s other immigration priorities.<\/p>\n

Even without passage of the bill providing funding for the wall, construction of portions of it has already begun. Trump told the reporters that he will be going to the border in Texas for a \u201cgroundbreaking\u201d ceremony for a portion of the project at the end of January.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we\u2019re fighting over funding, we\u2019re also building, and it\u2019s my hope to have this done, completed, all 500 to 550 miles, to have it either renovated or brand new by Election Day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The president repeated that he is prepared to wait as long as it takes to get $5 billion from taxpayers for his border wall while speaking at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on December 26. Trump blamed the shutdown on Democrat Nancy Pelosi, who was expected to become speaker of the house on January 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cNancy is calling the shots,\u201d said Trump, suggesting that Pelosi\u2019s opposition to his demand for wall funding had to do with her need for votes to become speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2014 Published with Permission of TheNewAmerican.com \u2014 Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office on Christmas Day, during the fourth day of the government shutdown, President Trump, when asked when the government would reopen, said, \u201cI can\u2019t tell you when the government\u2019s going to be open. I can tell you it\u2019s not going to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":8426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[714,285,237,635],"class_list":["post-8425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-border-wall","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-nancy-pelosi","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17053,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8425\/revisions\/17053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemstatepatriot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}