WASHINGTON (AP) – the President Donald Trump invited Tuesday to the leaders of both houses of Congress to the White House to a briefing on border security, while continuing a partial closure of l federal Government caused by a dispute over the financing of a wall on the border with Mexico.the meeting was scheduled for 3 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Wednesday, the day before the Democrats take control of the House of representatives , but the precise agenda was not clear so far, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The leader of the majority in the Senate Mitch McConnell, as well as the Republicans of higher rank in the incoming House of representatives, Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise, plan to attend the meeting, according to advisers. The outgoing President of the Chamber floor Paul Ryan will not go. Also will attend Nancy Pelosi, who will have to assume the Presidency of the House of representatives, and Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer.
Pelosi said that Democrats would approve legislative measures on Thursday to “finish with the closing of Trump”.
“We are giving the Republicans the opportunity to take a Yes response”, Pelosi wrote in a letter to his colleagues on Tuesday. “The Republican senators have already supported this measure, and if they reject it now, will be complicit in the chaos and destruction of the third closure of the President during his term.” The invitation comes after democratic representatives unveiled their plan to reopen the Government without approving funds for the wall, which includes two proposals of law to finance closed agencies and return to work hundreds of thousands of Federal employees. Lawmakers planned to approve the proposals as soon as the new Congress starts to operate on Thursday. Trump spent the weekend saying that the Democrats had to return to Washington to negotiate and throwing provocations on Twitter. It contradicted statements by his colleagues saying that he still wants to build a concrete border wall. On Tuesday morning, after he published a new year’s message on Twitter “to everyone, even to the detractors and the media false news”, Trump Tweet: “the Democrats, as I suspected not allocated funds for a new wall. What could be imaginative! The problem is that, without walls, there can be no real border security”. But later seemed to change tone, addressing Pelosi. ″ border security and the ‘subject’ of the wall and the closure are not where Nancy Pelosi wants to start his term as President of the Chamber! We reach an agreement? “, tweet.”
It was not clear whether the Senate under Republican control, is considering the proposals Democrats or if Trump would sign them.
Donald Stewart, spokesman for Senator McConnell, said that Republicans will not vote for anything without the President’s backing. “It’s simple: the Senate is not going to send the President something that is not going to sign”, said. Even if it is only symbolic, the approval of the proposals in the House of representatives would apply new pressure on Trump. At the same time, the Government officials said that Trump has no hurry to resolve the impasse. Trump believes that it has public opinion and its base of supporters of his party, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
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