A 35-day struggle between President Donald Trump and the U. S. Congress to cut a deal to end the partial government shutdown finally ended on Friday. Now the hard part begins.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A 35-day struggle between President Donald Trump and the U. S. Congress to cut a deal to end the partial government shutdown finally ended on Friday. Now the hard part begins.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers will have until Feb. 15 to craft a border security agreement satisfactory to both sides.
Trump has threatened that if he doesn’t like the outcome, he could throw the government right back into shutdown mode.
Or, he also said, he might try declaring a “national emergency” which, he said, would get him the $5.7 billion he wants for a U. S.-Mexico border wall. Such a step would also likely trigger a court battle with Democrats.
While Trump did not get that money in Friday’s deal, he won a promise that Congress will work on a Department of Homeland Security spending bill that contains border security funding for the rest of the fiscal year ending on Sept.
