President Trump vowed Thursday to plow ahead with construction of a border wall "one way or the other" even as congressional lawmakers began negotiating a possible border-security compromise -- while insisting the project should simply be called a "wall" from here on out. Trump in recent weeks, in an apparent effort to ease concerns among Democrats who bristle at talk of a border wall, had alternated between calling it a barrier or fence or "steel slats." Trump originally sought $5.7 billion for a border wall, only to be rebuffed by Democrats. Amid that standoff, the president for weeks used a variety of softer terms to describe the physical structure he wants on the border. Last week, Trump unveiled somewhat of a new slogan for the border wall, “BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL!,” which would seemingly replace the old, “BUILD THAT WALL” slogan that so many Trump supporters chanted at rallies across the country since he announced his intention to run for president in 2015.

Source: Fox News January 31, 2019 14:14 UTC