President Donald Trump claimed Sunday there was a 'productive' meeting to end the partial government shutdown after Vice President Mike Pence and aides emerged from it with no sign of forward movement and the president himself earlier said he didn't 'expect anything to happen' at it.
'V.P. Mike Pence and group had a productive meeting with the Schumer/Pelosi representatives today. Many details of Border Security were discussed. We are now planning a Steel Barrier rather than concrete. It is both stronger & less obtrusive. Good solution, and made in the U.S.A.,' he wrote.
Pence, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner spent about 90 minutes Sunday afternoon meeting with aides from Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's and Speaker Nancy Pelosi's offices after a Saturday gathering produced no results.
President Donald Trump claimed Sunday there was a 'productive' meeting to end the partial government shutdown
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Vice President Mike Pence, and White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner walk up the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to meet with Congressional staff on Sunday
Trump said there was a good meeting Sunday on the shutdown talks
A Democratic official told Axios the meeting started 45 minutes late and no progress had been made. Additionally, no other meetings of the group had been scheduled, the person said.
Earlier Sunday the president set a low bar for the gathering.
'I don't expect anything to happen at that meeting,' he said.
But, Trump added, 'very serious talks' would continue on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the coming week as the government went through day 16 of a partial shutdown.
The president also claimed he found a 'good solution' for the crisis, which began on Dec. 21 after Democrats and the White House hit an impasse over funding Trump's border wall.
His answer: a steel barrier instead of concrete wall.
On Sunday Trump said he wold offer Democrats a 'steel barrier' instead of concrete wall because 'they don't like concrete so we'll give them steel.'
'We'll build a steel barrier,' he told reporters at the White House after he returned from a staff retreat at Camp David.
'It'll be less obtrusive and it'll be stronger,' he added.
'Steel is actually more expensive than concrete but it'll look beautiful and it's very strong. It's actually stronger,' he noted.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said the wall's construction materials could be changed in order to reach a compromise between Democrats and the president
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said any offer from the president would be discussed
The White House is pushing the change in linguistics as a way of offering Democrats' political cover so they aren't funding a 'wall.'
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday the construction materials could be changed in order to reach a compromise between Democrats and the president.
'If he has to give up a concrete wall, replace it with a steel fence in order to do that so that Democrats can say, 'See? He's not building a wall anymore,' that should help us move in the right direction,' Mulvaney said on NBC's 'Meet the Press.'
'Call it a wall, call it a fence, the president actually said he didn't care what you call it. He even offered to let the Democrats help him design something. He says as long as it's effective, he doesn't care what you call it,' Mulvaney said.
But even some members of Trump's own party found the idea odd, with Republican Sen. Susan Collins called the debate over construction material 'bizarre.'
'I've always thought that the debate over what the physical barrier should be constructed of was rather bizarre,' she said on NBC's 'Meet the Press.'
But House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said any offer from the president would be discussed.
'It is an offer he made, and it'll be discussed,' he said on NBC's 'Meet the Press.' 'What we ought to do is open up the government first.'
The president said earlier on Sunday his border wall can be built of steel instead of concrete if that will help Democrats come to terms in negotiations to reopen the government.
'The barrier or the wall can be steel instead of concrete if that helps people. It may be better,' the president said before he left for Camp David for a staff retreat.
President Trump said Sunday the government shutdown could go on a for a while
President Trump said he can relate to furloughed government workers as the partial government shutdown heads into its third week.
'I can relate and I'm sure that the people who are on the receiving end will make adjustments, they always do,' he said.
'But many of those people that won't be receiving a paycheck, many of those people agree 100 percent with what I'm doing,' he added.
'They will make an adjustment because they want to see the border taken care of,' Trump said later Sunday as he stood firm that all would be well for federal workers.
'It'll all work out,' he said.
But he is standing firm on the $5 billion he wants to build his border wall.
'There's not going to be any bend right here,' he said.
He also said, he, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi could get the government open in '20 minutes' if Democrats wanted.
'Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and myself can solve this in 20 minutes if they want to. If they don't want to it's going to go on a long time,' he said.
'I will tell this if we don't find a solution it's going to go on for a long time,' he added.
He said he was holding firm because his supporters want a wall.
'The people that voted for Donald Trump – and there's a lot of people, it was one of the greatest elections ever – those people are for it so much. And let me tell you that people that didn't vote for Donald Trump are for it also. They want border security,' he said.
'I don't like doing this,' he added. 'I was elected to protect our country.'
'I think I'm doing a great job,' he noted.
The White House and Democrats are locked between the $5 billion Trump wants and the $1.3 billion Democrats have offered. Neither side will budge.
Trump said he thinks Democrats want to make a deal but he declined to say what he would offer - such as protections for Dreamers, the illegals brought to the U.S. by their parents as children - or if he would go down on wall funding to make that happen.
'Everybody's playing games but I'll tell you this, I think the Democrats want to make a deal,' the president said.
He also indicated he was looking at his options, including declaring a national emergency.
'I may declare national emergency dependent on what going to happen in the next few days,' Trump said.
Later in the day, upon his return from Camp David, he said: 'We're looking at a national emergency because we have a national emergency. Just read the papers.'
Trump said he, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (above) could have the government open in 20 minutes
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is blaming Trump for the impasse
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the president was not fighting for a wall but for border security.
'The president's not fighting for the wall; he's fighting for the protection of American citizens,' she said on 'Fox News Sunday.'
'The president's prepared to do what it takes to protect our borders,' she added.
Trump on Friday first floated the idea of declaring a national emergency to take the money he needs for his border wall.
Such a move would likely face legal action.
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday he didn't think Trump would be able to use emergency powers to build his wall.
'Look, if Harry Truman couldn't nationalize the steel industry during wartime, this President doesn't have the power to declare an emergency and build a multibillion dollar wall on the border,' Schiff said on CNN's 'State of the Union.' 'So that's a non-starter.'
And Democratic Rep. Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, said Trump had the authority to declare a national emergency but it would likely be challenged in court.
'There is a provision in law that says the president can declare an emergency,' Smith said on ABC's 'This Week.' 'In this case, I think the president would be wide open to a court challenge saying, where is the emergency? You have to establish that in order to do this.'
Under the National Emergencies Act of 1976, presidents are allowed to take such an action in times of emergency if they notify Congress, specify the circumstances that make the situation an emergency and document all uses of executive authority.
Officials at the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense have researched the issue for the president, The New York Times reported.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the president is 'prepared to do what it takes to protect our borders'
Mulvaney on Sunday said the president has asked his cabinet agencies to examine whether their departments have funds that can be diverted.
'Presidents have authority to defend the nation,' he said on CNN's 'State of the Union.'
'The president has asked every single Cabinet secretary, and the Office of Management and Budget, to go out and find money that can be used legally to guard the Southern border,' he noted.
The move has come as Trump finds himself between a rock and a hard place: his 2016 campaign promise to build a wall and increasing pressure from Republicans to get the government open.
The president on Sunday brushed aside a question on whether he's lost any leverage in the talks as members of his party question on how long the shutdown will go on.
'I have tremendous support within the Republican Party,' he said.
On Friday, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis became the their GOP senator to call for the shutdown to end, joining Sens. Cory Gardner and Susan Collins.
'I've never thought that shutdowns are an appropriate means of trying to achieve any kind of solution. This isn't a matter of one side or the other caving in. It's a matter of getting to a compromise, and that is a sign of strength. And it's important that we remember that real lives are being affected here,' Collins said Sunday on NBC's 'Meet the Press.'
Trump also sought to push the blame toward the Democrats.
'This shutdown could end tomorrow or it could also go a long time. It's really depending on the Democrats,' he said.
'You think I like doing this. I don't like doing this but we have to have it,' he noted.
But Speaker Nancy Pelosi blamed Trump for the impasse.
She also blasted Trump for suggesting that he may build the wall anyway under presidential emergency powers.
“The impression you get from the president [is] that he would like to not only close government, build a wall, but also abolish Congress so the only voice that mattered was his own,” Pelosi said on CBS's “Sunday Morning.”
Democrats, meanwhile, are pushing their own measures to reopen the goverment.
On Thursday, the first day House Democrats were in power, they passed two pieces of legislation to fund the government: one funded the Department of Homeland Security until Feb. 8 and the other funded all other closed departments - such as Justice, Interior, Transportation, Commerce and Agriculture - for the rest of the fiscal year through Sept. 30.
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said the president has asked his cabinet agencies to examine whether their departments have funds that can be diverted
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said he didn't think Trump would be able to use emergency powers to build his wall
An estimated 380,000 federal employees in those departments have been furloughed and another 420,000 will have to work without pay. The clock is ticking to Jan. 11 - the first pay period for those workers that will encompass the entire time period of the shutdown.
Next week, Democrats plan to bring up individual bills to fund each department that is closed beginning with the Internal Revenue Service as fears mount tax returns could be delayed if the shutdown continues much longer.
But Trump has said he will not sign any legislation that doesn't give him $5 billion for his wall.
And Senate Republicans said they will not bring up any legislation the president won't sign.
'We're not doing a wall. Does anybody have any doubt we're not doing a wall,' Pelosi said Thursday, the day she returned to power.
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