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Donald Trump prepares 'major announcement' on shutdown talks, border crisis

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump geared up for a “major announcement” Saturday on the partial shutdown that could trigger movement in talks to end the budget…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump geared up for a “major announcement” Saturday on the partial shutdown that could trigger movement in talks to end the budget impasse that has kept the government closed for four weeks.
“Let’s get to work and let’s make a deal,” Trump said in a video he tweeted out to tease the 3 p.m. speech at the White House.
In the meantime, aides signaled that Trump would not use the remarks to declare a national emergency on the border, though that remains an option. Instead the speech is being billed as a proposed path forward with offers to Democrats in hopes they will back the president’s call for a wall on the U. S.-Mexico border.
The wall is the sticking point in the budget negotiations.
The president has refused to sign any spending bills to re-open the government unless they include $5.7 billion for some kind of border barrier, be it a wall or a “steel slat” fence. Democrats, who now control the House of Representatives, have refused to support the wall, calling it too expensive and ineffective, instead supporting technology and additional manpower to secure the border.

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