WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump says the odds congressional negotiators will craft a deal to end his border wall standoff with Congress are “less than 50-50.”
Trump tells The Wall Street Journal that he doesn’t think the negotiators will strike a deal that he’d accept. He pledges to build a wall anyway using his executive powers to declare a national emergency if necessary.
After all that I have done for the Military, our great Veterans, Judges (99), Justices (2), Tax & Regulation Cuts, the Economy, Energy, Trade & MUCH MORE, does anybody really think I won’t build the WALL? Done more in first two years than any President! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 28, 2019
A bipartisan committee of House and Senate lawmakers are expected to consider border spending as part of the legislative process to keep the government open past a Feb. 15 deadline for a budget agreement.
Hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers prepared to return to work now that the 35-day shutdown is over.
