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US President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday (11) to paralyze his own government for lack of funds if the budget approved by Congress this month does not include enough money to build the wall . border with Mexico.
Trump said it during a heated debate in the Oval Office with Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and in the Senate, Chuck Schumer.
"If I can not get what I want, I'm going to close the government, I'm proud to close it for security reasons at the border at Schumer
Trump threatens to paralyze him if he can not get funding for the wall
Trump threatens to paralyze him if he can not get funding for the wall New funding for the federal government before December 21 and Trump demanded that $ 5 billion be included in this budget for the construction of the wall on the Mexican border.
US President Donald Trump, during a conversation with the minority leader in the United States of America, Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, at a meeting at the White House on Tuesday (11) – Photo: Reuters / Kevin Lamarque
Schumer and Pelosi attended Tuesday a meeting with Trump with a $ 1.3 billion offer to endorse for border security, but voiced their rejection of the Wall project.
"It's about spending a lot of money and not about solving the problem," said Schumer about investing in the wall.
Trump insisted that the construction of the wall is necessary because there is a "national emergency" caused by illegal immigrants and drug traffickers entering the United States. Without citing any evidence, he said that there were "people with tremendous hardships and medical problems entering (in the country), and in many cases they are contagious."
The American president badumed that "many" immigrants from Central America originally from caravans "were moving away from the border with the United States and" returning to their country ", and stated that the new Mexican government "worked very well" with this
On leaving the meeting, Chuck Schumer confirmed to reporters that they had not reached an agreement with Trump and had confessed that he it was "hard to believe" to want to paralyze the government itself.
"If you do not give up $ 5 billion for the wall, you will not get any wall or closure government, "said the Democratic senator.
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