WASHINGTON (AP) – on his first day as majority, Democrats in the House of representatives approved on Thursday a plan for the Government to resume operations, but without providing financing for the border wall promised by President Donald Trump.La vote, largely performed according to partisan lines, was carried out after a surprise Trump Conference at the White House that promised to continue fighting to achieve that campaign offering. The President of the camera low Nancy Pelosi said that Trump and the Republican senators should “take a Yes response” and approve the measure, which is virtually identical to a plan that the Senate adopted loudly last month.
“We are not going to make a wall. Does anyone have a doubt that won’t make a wall? “, said Pelosi told reporters at a press conference Thursday night.
Pelosi, who was elected as President of the legislative halls hours earlier, also criticized Trump, when he described his proposal as ‘a wall between reality and their voters’. Hours earlier, on the 13th day of the partial Government shutdown, the President joined surprisingly the press room of the White House, where he said that “without a wall, you can’t have border security”. Then he left without answering questions from reporters. Shortly before the new Congress began sessions in a day in which Democrats took formally control the lower House and Pelosi the same presidency after eight years of Republican control.
Donald Trump. Picture: AP the measure approved Thursday by the Democrats has no future in the Senate, where the Republicans want to Trump back before voting on any budget package. Trump demands billions of dollars to be allocated to build a wall on the border with Mexico, something that the Democrats refuse to support. Asked if he would give Trump a single dollar to the wall in order to conclude the partial closure in the Government, Pelosi replied: “Do a dollar” “? Yes, one dollar. The fact is that a wall is an immorality. It is not who we are as a nation”. Legislative leaders of both parties met with Trump at the presidential residence on Wednesday, but failed to progress during their first meeting in weeks. The White House invited them again Friday for another round of talks which, according to some officials, could be more successful now that Pelosi has been sworn in. They told reporters on Thursday that Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House Press Secretary would offer a hastily-convened press conference in the afternoon. However, he joined was Trump, flanked by members of the unions representing border patrol and immigration agents. It was the first time that speaks on the podium in that room.” “They can call it barrier, can call it what you will”, said Trump. “But basically we need protection in our country. We will keep our word. The people of our country want it”.
Donald Trump. Picture: AP the President said that his meeting with trade union officials had been planned for some time and just took place “in a very opportune moment”. Also stated that their refusal to give up was winning praise, telling reporters: “I’ve never had both supported and which I had last week around my position on border security”. Polls show that most Americans oppose the border fence, although Republicans support it strongly.
The White House and the Department of Homeland Security officials have passed the last days trying to defend the idea that the situation at the border is a “crisis” that requires more money than Democrats have offered.
Hours earlier, the President tweet a video with images of migrants trying to cross the border en masse and facing border agents, accompanied by the words “crisis at the border”, “drugs” and “crime”. The video concludes with Trump jacks at the border along with audio of one of their rallies in which promises to erect the wall and the crowd Korea: “Build the wall!”.
Donald Trump. Picture: AP the democratic package of proposals to put an end to the closure would include a Bill to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security at current levels _including 1,300 million of dollars for border security, much less than what you asked Trump for the muro_ until February 8, while the talks continue. It was approved by 239 votes in favor and against 192. Democrats also passed a separate measure to fund the departments of agriculture, Interior, housing and urban development, and others affected by the partial closure, to levels that Republicans in the Senate had largely agreed year past. The draft law, which would provide funds the rest of the fiscal year, until September 30, was approved 241-190, with several Republican votes in support of the Democrats. The White House rejected the democratic package.” Why not finance fully the Department of Homeland Security? Why Pelosi Bill not done that? “, asked Kellyanne Conway, advises the White House.”
The Democrat leader Chuck Schumer urged his Republican colleague Mitch McConnell to submit the Pack of Democrats in the lower House to debate in the Senate and send it to the President, saying that it would show you to Trump “the light of reason”.
McConnell has said that it is a “totally unfeasible project” and a waste of time.
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