President Trump on Thursday visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas and argued a barrier made of steel would deter human trafficking and drugs, amid stalled negotiations with Democrats over funding the border project and ending the partial government shutdown. Back in Washington, Democrats in the Senate on Thursday failed to proceed with House-passed spending bills that would fund the government and end the partial shutdown without new border wall money. “If we had a barrier of any kind, a powerful barrier, whether it’s steel or concrete...We would stop it cold,” Trump said of human trafficking. The president famously promised during the 2016 campaign that Mexico would pay for the border wall. Trump is asking for funding for a border wall in the spending package, something Democrats are rejecting.

Source: Fox News January 10, 2019 19:00 UTC