The partial shutdown of the government became the longest on record at midnight Friday (0500 GMT Saturday), when it overtook the 21-day stretch in 1995-1996, under president Bill Clinton. Trump on Friday backed off a series of previous threats to end the deadlock by declaring a national emergency and attempting to secure the funds without congressional approval. “I´m not going to do it so fast,” he said at a White House meeting. “If they can´t do it… I will declare a national emergency. “We have a country that´s under siege,” he told the local officials in the White House.

Source: Pakistan Today January 12, 2019 03:00 UTC