President Donald Trump will mark the end of his first 100 days in office with a flurry of executive orders, looking to fulfill campaign promises and rack up victories ahead of that milestone by turning to a.
The White House remains confident that won't happen, now that President Donald Trump appears to be backing down from a key demand.
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"We're pleased he's backing off", Schumer said of Trump's funding demand.
By Tuesday, the administration was acknowledging Trump's plan could be pushed back. However, he did not specify whether Trump would sign an spending bill that did not fund the border wall.
The Republican had signalled he could wait for funding until autumn 2017 following a stand-off between the White House and Congress over a spending bill that includes $1.1bn (£0.7bn, €0.9bn) in funding for a down payment for construction of the border wall.
Schumer said on MSNBC that Republican and Democratic leaders were on their way to a resolution when Trump intervened "and he throws a monkey wrench in it".
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., approved of Trump's apparent shift. She called the wall an "immoral, ineffective, unwise proposal".
Since Trump took office three months ago, border crossings have diminished, but Spicer said that the wall still "absolutely" needs to be built.
Trump, in a Twitter comment, said the "the Wall is a very important tool in stopping drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth (and many others)!"
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"There will never be a 2,200-mile wall built, period", Graham said.
It's not that Trump's Republican allies in Congress, who are the majority, don't support the notions underpinning a border wall.
The president tells reporters, "The wall's gonna get built".
Funding for border surveillance may be more palatable to some lawmakers than money for wall building, he added.
"I'm sure the president has a much better sense of the legislative process than he did a year ago or even 100 days ago, and every president does, no matter how well prepared they think they are for that job", said Sen.
Some Republicans indicated they would not be willing to allow the government to shut down over the wall. A White House effort later this year to get Congress to fund the wall could face a similar fate given that some Republicans also oppose it. "There's another way, another time to get this".
Democrats have been saying that wall funding is a non-starter, with public opinion on their side.
"But they said no to that and we agreed to put that off for another day", he said.
Although the White House said on Monday that another vote to repeal and replace Obama's signature health care law could not come for weeks, Trump is dangling the prospect of funding some elements of the law, which enabled millions more Americans to secure health care coverage, in exchange for Democrats' support in the spending talks. They say they're getting close to the votes needed in the House to move forward.
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