Trump threatens to close Mexican border again if Democrats refuse to fund wall
WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday made a contemporary risk to close the southern border if Democrats don’t fund a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, as a partial authorities shutdown associated to the standoff stretched into its seventh day.
“We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall & also change the ridiculous immigration laws that our Country is saddled with,” Mr. Trump mentioned in a sequence of tweets. “We build a wall or close the southern border.”
We might be pressured to close the Southern Border totally if the Obstructionist Democrats don’t give us the cash to end the Wall & additionally change the ridiculous immigration legal guidelines that our Country is saddled with. Hard to imagine there was a Congress & President who would approve!
— Donald J. Trump (@actualDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
….The United States looses soooo a lot cash on Trade with Mexico underneath NAFTA, over 75 Billion Dollars a yr (not together with Drug Money which might be many occasions that quantity), that I’d contemplate closing the Southern Border a “profit making operation.” We construct a Wall or…..
— Donald J. Trump (@actualDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
…..close the Southern Border. Bring our automotive trade again into the United States the place it belongs. Go again to pre-NAFTA, earlier than so a lot of our corporations and jobs had been so foolishly despatched to Mexico. Either we construct (end) the Wall or we close the Border……
— Donald J. Trump (@actualDonaldTrump) December 28, 2018
Lawmakers and the White House have made no progress in latest days towards a deal to finish the partial authorities shutdown, seemingly leaving the border-wall funding struggle as the primary order of enterprise for the brand new Congress subsequent yr. Mr. Trump, who has remained on the town over the Christmas vacation, has demanded that Congress embody border-wall funding as a part of any spending invoice wanted to hold the federal government totally operational.
Democrats mentioned the president was the one being intransigent.
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