Donald Trump told Congressional leaders Friday that he will shut down the government for 'months or years' if he does not get money for his Mexican wall - and said he was 'proud' to do 'the right thing.'
Trump's threat was first disclosed by Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate minority leader, who accused the president of holding federal workers 'hostage' for the wall - then confirmed by the president as he addressed reporters in the Rose Garden.
'I did. I did. I did say that. Absolutely I said that. I don’t think it will but I am prepared,' Trump said.
Trump claimed the meeting was 'very, very productive' - a stark contrast to the tone adopted by Democratic leaders - and said that he was setting up a working group led by Mike Pence, the vice president, which would meet this weekend to discuss how to move forward on the shutdown.
He headed to the Rose Garden after the meeting for an impromptu press conference flanked by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Vice President Mike Pence, Republican Minority Whip Steve Scalise and Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader had been present for the talks but was not at the press conference. Trump claimed he was 'busy running the Senate.'
Trump described his wall as a vital security measure, and in a free-wheeling performance claimed that illegal immigrants were being driven across it away from ports of entries, in some cases with their mouths taped over.
The president also disclosed that he had considered declaring a national emergency to build the wall without legislative approval and said: 'I still might.'
Rose garden address: Trump left the meeting and headed to the Rose Garden to speak to reporters flanked by (from left) Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Vice President Mike Pence, Republican Minority Whip Steve Scalise and Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
'Contentious': New House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the atmosphere at the White House talks had not been positive
No deal: Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and their deputies Steny Hoyer (left) and Dick Durbin (second from right) left the White House without any progress towards reopening the government
He also used the press conference to say that he had asked the Democrats if they would use the shutdown to impeach him.
Schumer, the new Speaker Nancy Pelosi, their deputies and their Republican opposite numbers had gone to the White House for talks with Trump as the shutdown entered its 14th day.
But as she left Pelosi told reporters the talks were 'at times contentious' and when asked if there had been progress responded: 'How do you characterize progress?
'It is very hard to see how progress will be made unless the open up the government.'
Schumer said: 'We made a plea to the president again: don't hold millions of Americans, hundreds of thousands of Americans, hostage. Open up the government and let's continue the discussion.'
Schumer added: 'He said that he would keep the government closed, for a very long period of time, for months or even years.'
There was no mention from the Democratic leaders of a possible deal floated by Vice President Mike Pence, who had suggested that the president could use a program giving legal status to illegal immigrant children as an incentive for Democrats to give him is border wall.
Pence said that Trump's stance heading into a Friday morning meeting with congressional leaders is 'no wall, no deal,' but he's willing to negotiate other aspects of an agreement to reopen the government.
'I think the president’s made it very clear -- no wall, no deal,' he told Tucker Carlson after the Fox News host asked about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. 'But look, we really are prepared to negotiate, we’re prepared to talk, we’re prepared to listen,' he added.
Vice President Mike Pence suggested that the president could use a program giving legal status to illegal immigrant children as an incentive for Democrats to give him is border wall
Pence said that Trump's stance heading into a Friday morning meeting with congressional leaders is 'no wall, no deal,' but he's willing to negotiate other aspects of an agreement to reopen the government
Pelosi has said that DACA alone is not enough for her caucus to give the president his border wall funding. He's asking for north of $5.6 billion at this point.
The president may be preparing to offer it to Democrats anyway as he takes one last shot at getting the government back on track before the end of the current pay period on what is now the fourteenth day of the partial, federal shutdown.
Pelosi said Thursday that she'd be willing to give the president a dollar for the wall to get the government back open, but she was only half-seriously responding to a reporter's question about the potential for an agreement.
House Democrats passed bills providing no money for the wall last night that would fund the Department of Homeland Security for a little more than a month.
The White House has said that Trump would not sign the legislation, and the Senate did not bother to put it on the floor.
As leaders departed the Capitol for their meeting on the other side of town with Trump, the Senate adjourned until Tuesday morning, ensuring that the government shutdown would continue for at least three more days.
Trump meanwhile sent each Member of Congress a slideshow prepared by the Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that the White House previously suggested was so sensitive that it could only be viewed in a classified setting.
GOP leaders and the White House also complained that Pelosi and Schumer walked out of the Wednesday briefing early and rudely interrupted the president's Cabinet secretary.
The White House said in a Friday statement that Trump had sent the slideshow briefing to every member of Congress, as such. It also shared the presentation with the media.
It was not immediately clear on Friday why the presentation needed to take place in the Situation Room of the White House if the information could be distributed far and wide. It is usually used for classified meetings.
A notice claimed, 'Some of those present did not want to hear the presentation at the time, and so the President decided to make it available to all Members of Congress.'
Trump made his first appearance behind the podium in the White House press briefing room on Thursday afternoon to plug his border wall on camera. He left without taking questions ten minutes later to the shock and dismay of assembled press.
He seemed to be ginning up to have the last word on Friday, as his White House set up the Rose Garden with sound equipment.
He let House Majority Minority leader Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise do the talking for him on Wednesday after his Situation Room briefing at a press conference in front of the White House.
Democrats also spoke to press from the president's driveway, reiterating in their remarks that they will give him no money for the wall.
The White House has repeatedly suggested that Pelsoi would loosen her grip on border wall funding once she was formally named speaker. Trump has repeatedly claimed that Democrats are refusing him to have a platform to run on in 2020.
But the California Democrat was firm in her resolve that wall funding was not coming on Thursday evening, and she insisted it is not political gamesmanship.
'We're not doing a wall,' Pelosi said after she'd taken the gavel in the House. 'It has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with a wall is an immorality between countries. It's an old way of thinking. It isn't cost effective.'
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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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