Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday night that the Trump administration had no plans to back down from its demand for $5.6 billion in funding for a border wall, even if it means keeping the government partially closed. “The president has made it very clear: No wall, no deal,” Pence told Fox News personality Tucker Carlson. “We’re here to make a deal, but it’s a deal that’s going to result in achieving real gains on border security, and you have no border security without a wall. “We really are prepared to negotiate, we’re prepared to talk, we’re prepared to listen,” the vice president said. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) also said Thursday she would support a proposal to separate homeland security funding from other funding bills in order to reopen most of the government agencies that have been affected.

Source: Huffington Post January 04, 2019 06:00 UTC