Senate seeks solution to open U.S. government, Trump insists on wall
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - U.S. senators sought to end a partial month-long government shutdown through a temporary funding bill on Thursday, but President Donald Trump demanded a "down payment" for a border wall that Democrats reject.
After the Republican-led Senate failed to advance two measures to reopen shuttered agencies, Democratic and Republican lawmakers spoke on the Senate floor and urged quick passage of a three-week, stopgap funding bill to create time for talks on border security.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said such a measure would only work "if there is a large down payment on the wall" and Trump, who sparked the shutdown, now in its 34th day, with his demand for the U.S.-Mexico border wall funding, stuck to his position after the votes in the Senate.
“We have no choice but to have a wall or a barrier, and if we don’t have that, it’s just not going to work,” he told reporters at the White House, referring to border security.
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Let the orange shitgibbon cry elsewhere. If any country would let him in. I've cried here in the past and am happy to share.
