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White House says no short-term funding bill without 'down payment' on wall

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President Trump will only accept a stopgap spending bill to reopen the government if it contains a “down payment” for his long-desired border wall,…
President Trump will only accept a stopgap spending bill to reopen the government if it contains a “down payment” for his long-desired border wall, the White House said Thursday, shortly after the Senate rejected two separate funding bills.
“The president would consider a CR only if it includes a down payment on the wall,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement to The Hill.

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