“I don’t think the shutdown will pressure president Trump at all,” said Vander Griend, of Tennessee. This is the third partial government shutdown of the year, even though Trump’s own Republican party still controls both the House and Senate. “The Trump shutdown isn’t over border security; it’s because President Trump is demanding billions of dollars for an expensive, ineffective wall that the majority of Americans don’t support,” Schumer said. Trump had reversed course Thursday and rejected a measure that had unanimously passed the Senate and was under House consideration. It would have extended government funding until February 8 to allow time for debate about issues including border security, but it contained no money for a wall.

Source: Egypt Independent December 23, 2018 07:30 UTC