If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try!,” Trump said on Twitter. The tweet hardened Trump’s tone after an earlier message on Twitter that said the next move in the eight-day budget standoff over border wall funding belonged to the Democrats. “I am in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security,” Trump tweeted. One Democratic representative, Dwight Evans of Pennsylvania, said in a tweet posted by his staff that Trump was “reaching new lows with these ridiculous tweets. A recent NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll found that Americans — by 57 to 36 percent — favored Trump seeking compromise rather than insisting on his wall demand.

Source: Egypt Independent December 30, 2018 13:52 UTC