President Donald Trump on Thursday unleashed a tweetstorm of criticism of Democrats involved in tense negotiations on a spending bill to keep the government open, accusing them of trying to close national parks and jeopardize the safety of USA troops over demands to provide Americans with health care.
"The wall's going to get built, folks", Trump told reporters.
The bad deal that the Trump White House made to get a legislative win is an amendment that allows states to opt-out of preexisting conditions protections, and minimum coverage requirements.
Asked by reporters when the wall would be built, Trump said, "Soon".
"If the negotiation on other themes - immigration, the border, trade - isn't satisfactory to Mexico's interests, we will have to review our existing cooperation", Videgaray said.
Now that Republicans control both houses of Congress as well as the White House, failing to pass a budget will be even harder to explain to voters, especially after electing a president who campaigned on being the ultimate deal-maker.
"I think he realizes that it is unlikely to be part of the negotiation this time around", Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a GOP critic of Trump who dined with the president Monday at the White House. "It is becoming more of a nonissue". Trump has proposed a $30 billion spending boost for the Pentagon for the rest of this fiscal year.
But there are still obstacles to passing a spending bill by Friday, sources tell CNN. "The instability they would create in the markets would be monumental to themselves and their states", Crowley said.
After the election, Trump seemed to relax his expectations, telling "60 Minutes" that he would be OK with a fence along certain stretches - though he maintained a wall remained more appropriate for others.
The odds of a shutdown rise the further the issue gets kicked down the road, believes Goldman Sachs analyst Alec Phillips.
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Sure enough, as Congress came back to Washington after its two-week Easter recess, the White House began to signal that new funding for the border wall would be the price of a spending bill.
He said that threat would force Democrats to agree to include money for the border wall in the government funding bill but the Democrats didn't cave in.
A temporary funding bill expires Friday at midnight, and GOP leaders late Wednesday unveiled another short-term spending bill to prevent a government shutdown this weekend, something Republicans are determined to avoid.
"This week, next week, we don't know", White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said Tuesday. States could opt out of setting requirements for the benefits health insurers must cover in their policies and the ban on allowing insurance companies to charge more based on a person's age and health status.
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., the second-ranking member of his caucus, said Tuesday that the subsidies should be handled by the White House, not Congress.
"The president has the authority to go ahead and do it".
The House argued the program was illegal since the funds were not appropriated by Congress. These are referred to cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments. On Tuesday, Mr. McConnell said he supported "a permanent fix on miners' health care".
The administration appears to have dropped the idea that Mexico will provide financing up front for the border wall, which comes as less of a surprise when you realize that not many people were ever convinced that Mexico was going to pay for it.
"Our major concerns in these negotiations have been about funding for the wall and uncertainty about the. payments crucial to the stability of the marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act", Pelosi said in a statement.
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