Trump goes down row, agrees to the agreement to end the stop: the standard

President Donald Trump ended Friday the temporary shutdown of the longest government shutdown in US history, while putting an end to his insistence on immediate funding for the construction of walls along the border Mexican.

White House Rose Garden's announcement of the bipartisan agreement marked a retreat by Trump, suspending a line that paralyzed Washington, disrupted air travel, and left more than 800,000 federal employees unpaid for five weeks.
Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer said he hoped Trump "would have learned his lesson".
Both the Senate and the House of Representatives pbaded the agreement by unanimous consent on Friday. The White House later confirmed that Trump had signed it.

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The reversal of Trump took place when the total weight of the closure, including the financial cost for troubled employees and the national economy, became apparent, and that the president appeared upset by his political enemy Nancy Pelosi , the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives.
But while Trump agreed to reopen the government without first obtaining $ 5.7 billion in funding, he was still threatening to resume hostilities with a new closure or state of emergency if his pet's project did not suffer. no breakthrough over the next three years. weeks.
"In the next 21 days, I expect the Democrats and Republicans to act in good faith," he said, announcing that he would reopen the government.
"If we do not get a fair deal from Congress, either the government closes again on Feb. 15, or I use the powers conferred on me by the laws and the US Constitution to remedy this emergency situation, "he warned.
"We really have no choice but to build a mighty wall or a steel fence."

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S & P Global Ratings said Friday night that closure costs "are probably worse than we had expected before".
Based on their badysis, "the US economy has lost at least $ 6 billion, more than the $ 5.7 billion requested by the White House for the border wall," according to a statement.
Pain of arrest
Trump triggered the shutdown in December to pressure Congress Democrats to finance the border wall.
But House Democrats have calculated that voters would blame Trump for the ensuing chaos – and polls have shown that they were right.

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Federal workers as varied as museum employees and US Coast Guard sailors were left without pay. Even secret service agents overseeing the White House work without pay.
On Friday, the impact of the closure was concentrated on airports, where a sufficient number of security personnel employed by the federal government had been sick to slow down the overall operations.
Air traffic controllers were working without pay, and in New Jersey, Newark's Liberty International Airport, there were delays in staffing issues, raising fears of further deterioration of air travel in the United States.
This has increased the pressure to reach an agreement – and Trump has yielded, even at the risk of angering his electoral base.
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter has not lost time to denounce.

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"Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: he is no longer, to this day, the greatest wimp of all time to hold the position of President of the United States," she tweeted, referring to the late president, moderate republican.
No Exit
Trump says it takes more border barriers to end what he says is the level of crime crisis and illegal immigration. Democrats say its focus on the wall diverts attention from more complex immigration issues and is used to build its base for political purposes.
On Thursday, two competing bills to end the partial closure failed in the Senate, highlighting the inability of Trump's Democrats and Republicans to agree on a compromise that would reopen the government and s & rsquo; To commit to building a wall.
Trump spoke for weeks of using his presidential authority to declare a border emergency and bypbad Congress, thus allowing himself to take money from other sources for the wall.
However, that would almost certainly be challenged in the courts.
So while Trump had said that he would not "give in" to stalemate, the president was left with little alternative.
In his announcement to the White House, Trump thanked the federal workers who had suffered collateral damage in the political battle, saying that they had shown "extraordinary dedication to these recent difficulties."
But Tiffany Cruz, who works at New York's LaGuardia Airport, who was also severely affected by the delays, said she had little confidence in Trump.
"He has just reopened (the government) at his convenience," she said. "I do not believe that he cares about anything other than himself."
With the end of the closure, the question arises whether Trump will be invited back to deliver his speech on the state of the Union to Congress next Tuesday.

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