“There’s not going to be any wall money in the legislation,” Pelosi told reporters on Thursday. A day after members of a congressional panel began working on a deal to keep the government open past a Feb. 15 deadline, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) reiterated Democrats’ opposition to funding President Donald Trump ’s border wall. Nancy Pelosi on the conference committee negotiations: "There will not be any wall money in the legislation." pic.twitter.com/WTrbqWlJhlPelosi also rejected the idea of trading temporary protections for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in exchange for a permanent border wall, as Trump proposed earlier in January. The president didn’t get his wall money, but said he was granting Democrats an opportunity to further consider his demand for $5.7 billion in funding for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Source: Huffington Post January 31, 2019 19:07 UTC