(CNN) President Donald Trump called the ongoing talks with congressional lawmakers to avoid another shutdown "a waste of time" on Thursday, and suggested he would circumvent them in order to fund his border wall in an interview with The New York Times. "I think Nancy Pelosi is hurting our country very badly by doing what she's doing and, ultimately, I think I've set the table very nicely," Trump told the Times. Declining to confirm whether he would declare a national emergency to acquire money to build the wall, he said, "I've set the table. I've set the stage for doing what I'm going to do." Trump intimated that he would no longer work with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and stressed that he would see the wall's construction through one way or another.

Source: CNN February 01, 2019 02:50 UTC