"Would it be totally willing" to close the government on the financing of the wall: Trump

US President Donald Trump has stated that he would be "quite willing" to close the federal government unless Congress allows $ 5 billion to fund the long-promised wall along the US border. with Mexico, according to an interview with Politico on Wednesday.

In his interview Tuesday, Trump also told the media that the $ 5 billion request would only fund the physical barrier and that additional funds would be needed for other security measures at the border.

In a separate interview with the Washington Post on Tuesday, the Republican president said that if Congress does not fund the wall, it might try to do otherwise. He evoked his command at the border by US troops in October to install "barbed wire, fences and various other things".

US lawmakers are expected to pbad a spending bill by Dec. 7 to fund some government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security that oversees the border and immigration.

Trump has not materialized previous threats to prevent the US government from blocking funding for the wall. But with his Republican counterparts prepared to lose control of the House of Representatives in January after the Democrats' victories in this month's elections, Trump's comments sparked the concern not to back down this time.

Republicans will retain control of the Senate next year, but they still need Democratic support to pbad spending legislation.

Democrats refused to support the Trump Border Wall, which was an important part of its 2016 election platform, but supported other security measures at the border.

Trump told Politico Tuesday that he did not see the need to work with Congress on immigration reforms to attack the more than 700,000 so-called dreamers, young adults who were illegally brought to the United States when they were children.

Instead, he said that he first wanted to see how the legal challenges were going on in front of an Obama era program that allowed the dreamers to stay in the country.

If the courts finally decide against the program, he will be willing to negotiate on "border security and all the rest", he told Politico.

Legislation to protect dreamers has so far not been approved by Congress.

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