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Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Trump vows no end to shutdown until wall funded
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump vows Tuesday he will not reopen the government until he gets $5 billion to fund his border wall, as the partial government shutdown dragged into a fourth day.
Trump’s demand for a physical barrier on the US-Mexico border — a pillar of his election platform — has been rejected by Democrats and some Republicans. In retaliation, Trump refused last week to sign a wider spending bill, temporarily stripping funding from swaths of the government.
“I can’t tell you when the government is going to be open,” the Republican president tells reporters at the White House after his annual Christmas teleconference with US troops.
“I can tell you it’s not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they’d like to call it.”
— AFP
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