WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he would be willing to shut down the federal government if the funding fight comes down to money for a border wall.
“If it happens, it happens,” Trump told reporters according to a pool report. “If it’s about border security, I’m willing to do anything. We have to protect our borders. If we don’t protect our borders our country isn’t going to be a country, so if it’s about border security I’m willing to do what has to be done.”
Trump have repeatedly pledged to build a wall on the southern border in order to stop illegal migration, as well as human and narcotics trafficking, building the wall was one of the president’s key pre-election promises.
