President Donald Trump portrayed illegal immigrants as crime-committing, disease-carrying lawbreakers who must be blocked from entering the country by his proposed border wall on Tuesday morning.
Heading into a meeting today with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, Trump turned up the heat on Democrats, saying he would have the military build his border wall if Democrats refuse him the funding as part of a must-pass spending bill.
'People do not yet realize how much of the Wall, including really effective renovation, has already been built. If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!' Trump tweeted.
Trump claimed that Democrats are withholding the money 'strictly political reasons' and that they want to completely open America's borders to Mexican and Central American migrants.
'This brings large scale crime and disease,' the Republican president claimed.
Heading into a meeting today with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, Donald Trump turned up the heat on Democrats, saying he would have the military build his border wall if Democrats refuse him the funding as part of a must-pass spending bill
Trump's meeting at the White House is with Democratic leaders. Pelosi and Schumer were invited (left); Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarty (right) were not
Pelosi has already slapped down a DACA-for-wall deal that would have funded Trump's border barrier and would have protected illegal immigrant children from deportation
Trump had restrained himself from drawing a red line on border security spending in advance of the meeting at the White House with the top-ranking Democrats after suggesting in the fall that that he intended to go to the mat over it.
Democrats are skeptical, despite an olive branch from the president, that a Tuesday tete-a-tete with Schumer and Pelosi will result an arrangement that both parties view as acceptable. Even if it does, they worry the president will renege on anything he might agree to.
'We’ve had limited success in dealing with this president,' Sen. Dick Durbin told Politico. 'His word isn’t good. Within 48 hours he reverses himself. It’s very difficult to enter into a long-term agreement.'
The White House had not taken an official stance on a long-term bill after approving a short-term agreement on Friday that delayed a decision to Dec. 21. A partial government shutdown will go into effect at midnight the next morning if the two sides cannot come to agreement.
That gives lawmakers fewer than two weeks to arrive at a deal with Trump or see federal workers furloughed the week of Christmas and their won holidays ruined by a government shut down.
Democrats have signaled that they are willing to give Trump a third of the money he has laid out as a but have stipulated that it can only be used for fencing.
They appear to be at an impasse with the president who has said he is 'totally willing' to force a government shutdown until they approve his proposed border wall spending.
It was unclear on Monday what the president would be willing to offer Democrats in return for their support on his desired border walk spending. Pelosi has said she won't trade the money for a permanent legislative fix to a program that addressed the plight of illegal immigrant children.
Trump said early in the year that he wouldn't accept an immigration deal that doesn't include a total overhaul of the system. Immigration subsequently became a wedge issue in the election, with Democrats ultimately winning their battle to control a majority of seats in the House and Republicans maintaining their advantage in the Senate.
By meeting with Democratic leaders this week, Trump is effectively conceding that the fate of his most vaunted campaign promise lies at the feet of the opposing party.
Riding high from their November victory, Democrats seem equally prepared to hold the line on border wall spending.
They'll meet with Trump at 11:30 am on Tuesday, a source familiar with the talks said.
Legislators in the House and the Senate passed a short-term bill to keep the engines running beyond this past Friday, when federal funding for some agencies was scheduled to run out. Trump agreed to the delay out of respect for the family of the late President Bush, whose funeral was held last Wednesday in Washington at the National Cathedral.
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
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.
Schumer and Pelosi are refusing to wrangle votes for any agreement that provides funding for Trump's border wall, however. 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 claimed Friday that the wall would pay for itself in a single month.
'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.'
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.'
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?'
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 month. 'And I think it's a really bad issue for the Democrats.'
Trump told Democrats they could fund his wall or grapple with a shut down of the border last Monday morning as he picked a immigration fight.
He took another swat at the opposing party on Tuesday in a tweet that claimed $25 billion in border security spending could be erased if they would only spend $5 billion on completing his border structure.
GOP leaders will not 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.
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
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.'
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.
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.
In the Senate, the president currently 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.
Many federal agencies will run out of money on Dec. 21 unless Congress and the White House agree on a path forward.
The president wants $5 billion for border wall construction between the U.S. and Mexico
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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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