The current "continuing resolution" - the legal authorization for the Treasury to spend money - runs out at midnight Friday.
If no spending measure covering April 29 to September 30 is in place before 12:01 a.m. (0401 GMT) on Saturday, government funds will halt and hundreds of thousands of the country's several million federal employees will be temporarily laid off. "I think it's become symbolic of better border security. And we'll continue to ask for more in FY18", he said. Republicans after all control both the executive and legislative branches.
U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger was unavailable for comment. But the Manteno Republican's communications director, Maura Gillespie, said, "He doesn't think a shutdown is likely".
The Democrats' unwillingness to compromise on the issue seems to have been effective in terms of obtaining their initial objective.
President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that his campaign promise to build a wall on the US border with Mexico will come to fruition "soon".
Democrats have offered to back more funds for border security, and Republicans are agreeing to include federal funds to keep Obamacare exchanges functioning.
When Salama pressed Spicer on whether the wall will be delayed until 2018, he responded "No, no, no, I never--no one said delayed".
On Tuesday, Republicans moved to avert an impasse - and threat of a shutdown - and proposed a spending bill that included no funding for the wall, according to the Washington Post.
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However, it is expected she will resume her position as leader as "the French term she used signalled that the move to step aside would be temporary", the BBC says.
The White House is demanding funding for President Trump's controversial border wall.
The increase in border security, as opposed to an actual wall, is something that has received bipartisan support.
Videgaray also said the Mexican government was considering charging a fee for Americans entering the country, though he didn't fully describe the idea or say to whom it might apply.
"Border barriers are not a new issue", he said.
Davis said he would "work with both sides" to see if "a commonsense solution" can be found.
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway confirmed to "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning that the wall does not need to be funded this week, but she said it remains a "very important priority to [Trump]". But in 2013, conservative Republicans forced a 17-day shutdown in a failed attempt to repeal then-President Barack Obama's healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act. He wondered whether Democrats will face similar blame for trying to block a priority of Trump. The only thing more irresponsible than waiting until the last minute to find agreement on even stop-gap funding is to shut down the government. "We can't let that happen".
We have annotated Spicer's exchange with journalists, using Genius.
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