No shutdown end in sight as Trump again suggests invoking emergency powers to build border wall
WASHINGTON - With a partial government shutdown grinding into a third week and its disruptive effects widening, Republicans and Democrats agreed on one thing after a weekend of inconclusive staff-level meetings: A breakthrough is probably not imminent.
President Donald Trump on Sunday pressed his demand for billions of dollars in funding to build a southern border wall - something congressional Democrats again declared a non-starter - and once more talked up the prospect of using emergency powers to begin construction. That drew warnings from Democrats that circumventing Congress in that manner would trigger, at the very least, an energetic court challenge.
"We have to build the wall," Trump told reporters as he left the White House
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