$ 5 billion for financing the wall or closing the government, Trump repeats

The government is likely to close on December 7 if a funding agreement is not reached. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer told reporters on Tuesday that the Democrats' stance remains at $ 1.6 billion for border security measures agreed between the GOP and Democratic appropriators.

In an interview published Wednesday, Trump told Politico that he thought he was winning a political battle with Democrats on this issue.

The newspaper reported that Trump seemed "firmly determined" to want $ 5 billion. In an interview with the Washington Post released Tuesday night, however, Trump seemed to be leaving the door open to finding a different solution if he could not convince the Democrats to support the funding.

The president also told Politico that he "was not in the mood" to reach a compromise with the Democrats on a large-scale immigration agreement and that he wanted to wait for a compromise on "Dreamers" – undocumented immigrants brought to the United States when they were children – until after the current courts the challenges of the program were decided.

He predicted that the Supreme Court would take into account the legality of the delayed action program for child arrivals, an Obama era initiative that protected thousands of young undocumented immigrants brought to the states. As children of deportation.

"I have a big heart for DACA," Trump told Politico. "I want to be able to keep them, but if the court rules correctly, the DACA will not cause any problem and everything will be solved.If the court decides that Obama has this right, it will be a disaster. Will have nothing, we will not do anything. "

On Wednesday, outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan, after an in camera meeting with the GOP caucus, largely pinned his responsibilities on the Senate Democrats.

"The House has $ 5 billion from the president for the wall.The House is here.We've never been the problem here," Ryan said at a press conference. "But in the end, the president and the Democratic senators must also be heard," he said. "I think we will have to settle all this between all the parties involved," he added.

Ryan would not say how the House could bridge the gap between the $ 1.6 billion that Democrats have proposed for border security and the president's $ 5 billion request for funding the anti-border wall .

Representatives Steve Scalise and Kevin McCarthy, representatives of the Republican House of Representatives, expressed Tuesday their support for the $ 5 billion requested by Trump, which they said they absolutely want to get.

"We have to be at his side and make sure this is signed," Scalise, the majority bad in the House, told reporters after a meeting at the White House.

Scalise said that negotiations were underway between Republicans and Democrats on securing funding, and he insisted that there was a way to solve the problem without the closure of the government.