As the partial government shutdown drags into its third week, President Donald Trump is set to travel to the southern U.S. border in a few days.
With details promised to be coming soon, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced that Trump will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border “to meet with those on the frontlines of the national security and humanitarian crisis.”
President @realDonaldTrump will travel to the Southern border on Thursday to meet with those on the frontlines of the national security and humanitarian crisis. More details will be announced soon.
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) January 7, 2019
Sanders tweeted the announcement Monday as Democratic leaders continue to stand against the president’s request for $5.7 billion in funding for the wall to be included in a spending bill and passed by Congress. Democrats refuse to agree to any bill that contains funding for the wall, and Trump says he will veto any that does not contain the provision.
The Democrats could solve the Shutdown problem in a very short period of time. All they have to do is approve REAL Border Security (including a Wall), something which everyone, other than drug dealers, human traffickers and criminals, want very badly! This would be so easy to do!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2019
Ahead of Thursday’s planned trip, the president will address the nation in televised remarks as he highlights border security amid the standoff.
I am pleased to inform you that I will Address the Nation on the Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border. Tuesday night at 9:00 P.M. Eastern.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2019
After a weekend filled with meetings seeking to end the shutdown, Trump pitched the idea of a steel wall instead of a concrete barrier hoping to get Democrats to move forward in negotiations.
President Trump says he wants a steel border wall, and a reporter asks why Democrats would support that.
Trump: “They don’t like concrete, so we’ll give them steel. Steel is fine. Steel is actually more expensive than concrete, but it will look beautiful” pic.twitter.com/46F5OBtuYT
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 6, 2019
The president tweeted a meme announcing that a wall is coming and also tweeted his repeated contention that walls work.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2019
….The only reason they do not want to build a Wall is that Walls Work! 99% of our illegal Border crossings will end, crime in our Country will go way down and we will save billions of dollars a year! A properly planned and constructed Wall will pay for itself many times a year!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2019
David Rubin, a former mayor in Israel, backed Trump’s claims in an interview Monday on “Fox & Friends.”
“Well, if you want to understand whether walls work, Israel is a tremendous example,” he said, noting that in the first year after a barrier was built in Israel, illegal entry into the nation was cut almost to nothing.
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