President Donald Trump claimed Thursday he never meant Mexico would write a check to the United States to pay for the border wall but argued that they would pay for it 'indirectly' instead.
'When during the campaign I would say Mexico is going to pay for it. Obviously I never said this and I never meant they are going to write out a check. I said they are are going to pay for it. They are. They are paying for it with the incredible deal we made called the United States, Mexico and Canada it's a trade deal,' he told reporters at the White House before he left for a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal - which Trump calls USMC - still has to be approved by Congress and Trump complained lawmakers could hold that up because of the upcoming presidential election.
'It has to be approved by Congress. Probably will be other than maybe they hold that up because they want to have - they want to do as much harm as they can. Only because of the 2020 presidential election. So, Mexico is paying for the wall indirectly and when I said Mexico will pay for the wall in front of thousands and thousands of people they are paying for the wall indirectly. Many, many times over by the really great trade deal we just made,' he argued.
President Trump said he never meant Mexico would write the U.S. a check for the wall
The president said multiple times on the campaign trail that Mexico would pay for his border wall and gave the impression America's Southern neighbor would be sending cash directly to the U.S. for it.
During his presidential announcement speech on June 16, 2015, Trump said, 'I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.'
But, in recent days, Trump and his administration have been arguing Mexico will pay for the wall indirectly as they try to secure the $5 billion in funds needed to build it.
However, one Trump adviser admitted tax payers will bear the cost.
U.S. tax payers will pay directly for the wall, White House spokesperson Mercedes Schlapp said on CNN Wednesday.
'Yes,' Schlapp said when asked about taxpayers paying for the wall. 'And you know what else taxpayers are paying for? The financial burden of this illegal immigration.'
There is nothing in the trade agreement that requires Mexico to pay for the wall. The administration is making a more nuanced argument that taxpayers and businesses will be saving money on goods and services that they will inject back into the U.S. economy.
The latest salvo comes on day 20 of a partial government shutdown and as both sides are at an impasse over reopening it.
Trump is holding firm for his $5.7 billion and Democrats aren't budging from their $1.3 billion.
The president is leaving for the border to gin up support for his border barrier as Democrats vow not to fund his wall and he vowed not to sign any legislation to fund the government that doesn't fund his wall.
The USMC trade agreement isn't even legal yet. Although the three leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico signed the trade deal, the legislative bodies in each respective country must approve it before its binding. None of them have done so.
And there's no direct line of revenue from the agreement to the U.S. Treasury. Tax revenue generated by the trade provisions would not come from Mexico but from U.S. tax payers and corporations.
A fact check by the Anneberg Public Policy Center found Trump's claim of indirect payment by Mexico to be false.
Trump is taking the shutdown battle to the U.S.-Mexico border, seeking to bolster his case for the border wall after negotiations with Democrats blew up over his funding demands.
Trump stalked out of his meeting with congressional leaders - 'I said bye-bye,' he tweeted soon after – as efforts to end the partial government shutdown fell into deeper disarray. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers now face lost paychecks on Friday.
During his stop Thursday in McAllen, Texas, Trump will visit a border patrol station for a roundtable on immigration and border security and will get a security briefing on the border.
But Trump has expressed his own doubts that his appearance and remarks will change any minds, as he seeks $5.7 billion for the wall that has been his signature promise since his presidential campaign.
McAllen is located in the Rio Grande Valley, the busiest part of the border for illegal border crossings.
The unraveling talks prompted further speculation about whether Trump would declare a national emergency and try to authorize the wall on his own if Congress won't approve the money he's seeking.
'I think we might work a deal, and if we don't I might go that route,' he said.
President Donald Trump is heading to the U.S.-Mexico border for a photo-op he's not convinced will change anyone's mind about the need for a wall
Workers replaced sections of the border wall, left, with new sections, right, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (left) insisted Wednesday that the president let his temper get the best of him during a brief West Wing meeting after she refused to promise congressional funding for his border wall expansion project
The White House meeting in the Situation Room ended after just 14 minutes. Democrats said they asked Trump to re-open the government but that he told them if he did they wouldn't give him money for the wall. Republicans said Trump posed a direct question to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: If he opened the government, would she fund the wall? She said no.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Trump slammed his hand on the table. However, Republicans said Trump, who handed out candy at the start of the meeting, did not raise his voice and there was no table pounding.
One result was certain: The shutdown plunged into new territory with no endgame in sight. The Democrats see the idea of the long, impenetrable wall as ineffective and even immoral. Trump sees it as an absolute necessity to stop what he calls a crisis of illegal immigration, drug-smuggling and human trafficking at the border.
Trump headed to Capitol Hill earlier Wednesday, seeking to soothe jittery Republican lawmakers. He left a Republican lunch boasting of 'a very, very unified party,' but GOP senators have been publicly uneasy as the standoff ripples across the lives of Americans and interrupts the economy.
Trump gave a lukewarm speech Tuesday night in which he tried to restate his case for a border wall, but it changed the minds of no Democrats in Washington
Federal Aviation Administration employee Michael Jessie, who is currently working without pay as an aviation safety inspector, is among government employees affected by a now 20-day-old partial government shutdown
During the lunch, Trump discussed the possibility of a sweeping immigration compromise with Democrats to protect some immigrants from deportation but provided no clear strategy or timeline for resolving the standoff, according to senators in the private session.
GOP unity was tested further when the House passed a bipartisan spending bill, 240-188, to reopen one shuttered department, Treasury, to ensure that tax refunds and other financial services continue. Eight Republicans joined Democrats in voting, defying the plea to stick with the White House.
There was growing concern about the toll the shutdown is taking on everyday Americans, including disruptions in payments to farmers and trouble for home buyers who are seeking government-backed mortgage loans - 'serious stuff,' according to Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Senate Republican.
Some Republicans were concerned about the administration's talk of possibly declaring a national emergency at the border, seeing that as an unprecedented claim on the right of Congress to allocate funding except in the most dire circumstances.
'I prefer that we get this resolved the old-fashioned way,' Thune said.
Democrats said before the White House meeting that they would ask Trump to accept an earlier bipartisan bill that had money for border security but not the wall. Pelosi warned that the effects of hundreds of thousands of lost paychecks would begin to have an impact across the economy.
Vice President Mike Pence spoke to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House after Trump stormed out of a meeting with Pelosi and Schumer on Wednesday
'The president could end the Trump shutdown and re-open the government today, and he should,' Pelosi said.
Tuesday night, speaking to the nation from the Oval Office for the first time, Trump argued that the wall was needed to resolve a security and humanitarian 'crisis.'
He blamed illegal immigration for what he said was a scourge of drugs and violence in the U.S. and asked: 'How much more American blood must we shed before Congress does its job?'
Democrats in response accused Trump appealing to 'fear, not facts' and manufacturing a border crisis for political gain.
In an off-the-record lunch with television anchors ahead of his speech, Trump suggested his aides had pushed him to give the address and travel to the border and that he personally did not believe either would make a difference, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
But one person said it was unclear whether Trump was serious or joking. The people familiar with the meeting insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the meeting publicly.
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