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U.S. NEWS Monday 7 January 2019

Trump says he needs to deal with Dem leaders to end shutdown

Continued from Front While insisting he wanted to pressure would only mount said on NBC’s “Meet the has been used to build mili-
make a deal, he also de- amid the shutdown, which Press” that if the shutdown tary facilities in Iraq and Af-
With the partial shutdown clared he would not give he said is disrupting Trans- continues into Tuesday, ghanistan but would likely
in its third week, House an inch in his fight for fund- portation Security Admin- “then payroll will not go out be “wide open” to a court
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said ing for a border barrier, say- istration operations, home as originally planned on Fri- challenge for a border
she intends to begin pass- ing: “There’s not going to loans and farmers in his day night.” wall. Speaking on CNN’s
ing individual bills to re- be any bend right here.” state. Trump reaffirmed that he “State of the Union,” Intel-
open agencies in the com- Speaking to reporters later “Democrats and now a would consider declaring ligence Committee Chair-
ing days, starting with the in the day, Trump said he growing number of Repub- a national emergency to man Adam Schiff called
Treasury Department to en- had told aides to say that licans are coming together circumvent Congress and the idea a “nonstarter.”
sure people receive their they wanted a steel barrier, and saying let’s open up spend money as he saw fit. “Look, if Harry Truman
tax refunds. rather than the concrete the government and de- Such a move would seem couldn’t nationalize the
That effort is designed to wall he promised during bate border security sepa- certain to draw legal chal- steel industry during war-
squeeze Senate Republi- the campaign. Trump said rately,” Schumer told re- lenges. time, this president doesn’t
cans, some of whom are Democrats “don’t like con- porters in New York. Incoming House Armed have the power to declare
growing increasingly anx- crete, so we’ll give them Adding to concerns, fed- Services Committee Chair- an emergency and build
ious about the extended steel.” eral workers might miss this man Adam Smith, D-Wash., a multibillion-dollar wall on
shutdown. The president has already week’s paychecks. Acting said on ABC’s “This Week” the border,” said Schiff, D-
The seemingly intractable suggested his definition of chief of staff Mick Mulvaney that the executive power Calif.q
budget showdown marks the wall is flexible, but Dem-
the first clash for Trump ocrats have made clear
and Democrats, who now they see a wall as immoral
control the House. It pits and ineffective and prefer
Trump’s unpredictable ne- other types of border se-
gotiating stylings against a curity funded at already
largely united Democratic agreed upon levels.
front, as many Republicans Among the Republicans
watch nervously from the expressing concerns was
sidelines and hundreds of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine,
thousands of federal work- who said Senate Majority
ers go without pay. Leader Mitch McConnell
After another round of talks should take up bills from
led by Vice President Mike the Democratic-led House.
Pence with senior con- “Let’s get those reopened
gressional aides, Trump while the negotiations
tweeted that the session continue,” Collins said on
had been “productive.” NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
But two Democrats famil- Democrats criticized Mc-
iar with the meeting gave Connell for waiting on
a different take, saying the Trump’s support, but Collins
White House had not pro- said she was sympathetic
vided the budget details to McConnell’s opposition
they had requested and to moving legislation with-
again declined to re-open out agreement from the
government. One of the president.
officials — neither was au- Several Republicans
thorized to speak publicly pushed the Interior Depart-
— said no additional meet- ment to find money to re-
ings were scheduled. staff national parks amid
Trump said earlier in the growing concerns over
day that he was hoping upkeep and public safety.
for “some very serious talks And Senate Minority Lead-
come Monday, Tuesday, er Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,
Wednesday.” suggested Sunday that