US vice-President Mike Pence (second from left) with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, and incoming White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on Friday. "This is our only chance that we'll ever have, in our opinion, because of the world and the way it breaks out, to get great border security," Trump said on Friday. Early this week, the Senate approved a bipartisan deal keeping government open into February and providing $1.3 billion for border security projects but not the wall. In a GOP victory Thursday, the House rebelled and approved a package temporarily financing the government but also providing $5.7 billion for the border wall. The White House said Trump did not go to Florida on Friday as planned for the Christmas holiday.

Source: The Telegraph December 22, 2018 06:11 UTC