President Trump claimed Friday that the U.S. could replenish the funds he wants to appropriate to his border wall in a single month, if lawmakers would only give him the money he's demanding.
'We're talking about a wall for 20 billion, 15 billion. I could even do it cheaper if I have to, and it'll be better than anybody's ever seen a wall,' Trump claimed in a Kansas City speech to law enforcement. 'Think of that. You're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars, and you're talking about a fraction. You'd make it up in a month – a month! – by having a proper wall.'
Trump had previously claimed that the wall would pay for itself in two months. He has also said that he can finish the border barrier with a $5 billion allotment, dramatically decreasing earlier estimates of what it would take to complete construction.
President Trump claimed Friday that the U.S. could replenish the funds he wants to appropriate to his border wall in a single month, if lawmakers would only give him the money he's demanding
In Kansas City, he claimed that border patrol can easily 'handle' illegal immigrant traffic, yet said a wall continues to be necessary.
'You see what's happening. You see where they're surging, and our great people are able to easily handle it. Without the wall it gets tougher, but you know what? They still handle it,' he said.
The president declared illegal immigration 'a threat' to every American community that is 'overwhelming public resources and draining the federal treasury.
'Congress must fully fund border security in the year-ending funding bill. We have to get this done. They're playing games. They're playing political games,' he proclaimed. 'I actually think the politics of what they're doing is very bad for them, but we're going to very soon find out.'
Mocking the political prognosticators who said he wouldn't win the Oval Office, Trump boasted to his audience: 'Maybe I'm not right. But usually I'm right. Like, I said, "I'm going to win for president." And some people said that won't happen, and guess what? Look who's up here now, folks?'
Trump will meet next week with Democratic leaders to hash out a deal that could prevent a partial government shutdown four days before Christmas.
The meeting with Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrats in their respective chambers, was delayed from this week after the passing of George H.W. Bush.
It has been rescheduled for 11:30 am on Tuesday, a source familiar with the talks confirmed.
Legislators in the House and the Senate passed a short-term bill to keep the engines running beyond Friday, when federal funding for some agencies was scheduled to run out.
The Senate approved the delay by a voice vote on Thursday, following in the footsteps of the House, which had passed the measure hours before. Trump signed it before a Friday deadline, avoiding a fiscal plunge.
Trump has signaled that he'll go to great lengths to get the funding he desires for his border wall, having repeatedly threatened to close the nation's southern border.
He contended Friday that video footage and doesn't show just how dangerous some of the illegal immigrants are who the administration says are storming the border.
'I know every trick. They'll put women and children in the front row, and they'll have those cameras nice and low. So, number one, it doesn't look like a big crowd. And number two, all you see is women and children,' Trump claimed.
He said, 'And they say you're such bad people. I'm such a bad person. But behind that front couple of rows, you got some tough, tough people.'
Trump also accused 'radical activists' of 'smearing and slandering our police' at the conference.
'We will not tolerate attacks on the heroes who protect our streets and defend our communities. We will not allow it to happen,' he told a cheering crowd.
He told attendees of the DOJ-sponsored gathering that he is not afraid to say 'cop killers' deserve the death penalty.
'For me it's not even a little bit controversial,' he said. 'You kill a cop, and it's called the death penalty, OK?'
The meeting with Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrats in their respective chambers, delayed from this week after the passing of George H.W. Bush
The White House announced while Trump was in the air on his way to Missouri that he had approved the two-week extension that lawmakers sent him on Thursday to keep the government open until Dec. 21.
It effectively moved the border showdown to four days before Christmas, leaving room for the possibility that federal workers could be furloughed over the holiday.
Trump has not committed himself to a veto if the final fiscal year row ends without a provision for his border wall. He has merely said that he'd be willing to oversee his second shut down since taking office to get Congress to write him a check.
Schumer and Pelosi are refusing to wrangle votes for any agreement that provides funding for Trump's border wall. The best that Trump can hope for, Schumer says, is $1.6 billion in spending that he could put toward fencing and could not be used for any other type of border barrier.
He says Trump could otherwise accept a continuing resolution that appropriates $1.3 billion toward border security spending for the current fiscal year. If he doesn't want a shutdown, those are his only options.
Trump told Democrats they could fund his wall or grapple with a shut down of the border on Monday morning as he picked a immigration fight, despite the late President Bush's passing.
He took another swat at the opposing party on Tuesday in a tweet that claimed $250 billion in border security spending could be erased if they would only spend $25 billion to do it his way, which would include completing his border structure.
'Pays for itself in two months,' he declared in a tweet.
Trump pressured Democrats to fund his wall or grapple with a shut down of the border on Monday morning as he revived his immigration demands, despite the former president's passing
As Bush's body was headed to Washington to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol, the sitting president whacked Democrats and put new pressure on legislators to give him the $5 billion he needs to complete the structure
It's not just Democrats in the Senate who are uncomfortable with satiating Trump's border wall hunger.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, told CQ this week that she's not convinced Trump's wall is necessary.
'I haven't heard anything other than that's what the president wants,' she stated.
GOP leaders were not expected to attend the negotiating session with Trump at the White House next week, leaving the president to do his own bidding.
A House Republican source told DailyMail.com that the caucus would support the measure that is already a part of the lower chamber's Homeland Security appropriations bill.
'How members in the Senate vote is entirely up to them,' the person said.
Pelosi forcefully slapped down a proposal on Thursday to bring more of her members into the fold by trading the border wall for illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
'They're two different subjects,' she said. 'I think what we can do, that makes sense, is to pass six bills where the members of the Appropriations Committee have come to terms. You heard me say it over and over, left to their own devices, the appropriators can come to a good conclusion, and then have a [continuing resolution] only for Homeland Security as we go forward. And that's pretty much what our position is now.'
A proposal in Washington for a possible 'wall-for-DACA' deal, where the president would agree to package $5 billion in wall funding with a plan to give legal status to more than 1 million people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, died on Thursday with Pelosi's firm rejection of the possible package.
Trump last year formally invalidated the Obama-era program that spared that large group of non-citizens from deportation, but court rulings have tied his hands and the temporary amnesty has continued.
In the Senate, the president needs nine Democrats to cross party lines, assuming every Republican lends their support to his border wall demand, in order to overcome a filibuster.
His antics have not spooked Schumer, who last week said that Trump was free to throw a 'temper tantrum' and force a shut down if he wants, although he would advise against it.
The president wants $5 billion for border wall construction between the U.S. and Mexico
Republicans fear being blamed for a future shutdown, and they are feeling pressure to finalize a budget agreement before Christmas.
The next Congress will likely convene at noon on January 3, at which point Democrats will have more negotiating power.
The president has said he's more than willing to let funding for his cabinet agencies expire, calling it a political winner for the GOP.
'We need border security in this country, and if that means a shutdown I would totally be willing to shut it down,' he said last Wednesday. 'And I think it's a really bad issue for the Democrats.'
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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