Senate leaders on Thursday were trying to come up with a short-term plan to reopen the government as President Trump warned he has “other…
Senate leaders on Thursday were trying to come up with a short-term plan to reopen the government as President Trump warned he has “other alternatives” — meaning declaration of a national emergency to fund his border wall and end a 35-day standoff.
After failing to pass either a GOP-sponsored bill with $5.7 billion for the wall or a competing Democratic measure with no wall funding, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer huddled with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on a deal that would reopen the government for three weeks while they continued to negotiate border security.
But Trump, speaking to reporters from the White House later in the afternoon, took a wait-and-see approach — while insisting that his long-promised wall had to be funded one way or another.
“I have other alternatives if I have to, and I’d use those alternatives if I have to, but we want to go through the system.
