As the Washington Post reports, the Democrats are ready to accept, at least in part, Trump’s additional marginal spending on border security. But not for Trump’s favored wall on the Mexican border.
The proposal for a „smart wall“, which the Democrats Trump still want to submit officially in a letter, according to the newspaper about the acquisition of drones and sensors for monitoring the border region. In addition, additional immigration judges and border officials are to be recruited from the extra money.
It is considered approving „substantial sums of additional money“ for border security, said Democrat Steny Hoyer. Whether the approval of the total demanded by Trump $ 5.7 billion, but Hoyer said not.
High-ranking Democrat James Clyburn, on the other hand, said that if Trump’s request was met, it would only be a draft that he called a „smart wall“. The proposals should further increase the pressure on President Trump to compromise in the budget dispute.
For the past 33 days, parts of the government apparatus have been shut down in the US because the dispute over Trump’s request for a wall on the border with Mexico did not lead to the passing of a budget law. Trump refuses to sign a law that does not include money for the wall. The Democrats, whose votes he relies on in Congress, reject that.
Recently, US House of Representatives spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi had announced she would not allow Donald Trump’s annual State of the Union Address speech to the House of Representatives, as long as Trump did not end the government shutdown.
As much as the stalemate is slowing down the economy, the President’s economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, has now admitted in an interview with CNN: Growth may break in the first quarter, „it could easily turn a number close to zero.“
In surveys, a clear majority of Americans see Trump’s position in the budget dispute critical. 71 percent of respondents were in a survey by CBS, the opinion that Trump’s struggle for the border wall was not worth the disadvantages of partial government stalemate.
