Congressional and White House negotiators made progress Tuesday on a must-pass spending bill to keep the federal government open days ahead of a deadline as President Donald Trump indicated that USA funding for a border wall with Mexico could wait until September. "It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc".
The spending package must be approved no later than Friday to avoid a government shutdown.
Trump has pressured Congress to allocate $1.4 billion in the spending bill to begin construction of a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border but the president is now said to be amenable to language that would fund alternative security enhancements.
Those comments represented a retreat from just last week, when Mulvaney said getting money for Trump's wall in the budget bill was one of the administration's "priorities".
Club for Growth, a D.C. -based conservative advocacy group that also pressured Republicans to reject Obamacare spending in 2013, is focused on health care and a tax overhaul and "seeing progress continued on both of those fronts", said Doug Sachtleben, a spokesman for the group.
Meantime, President Trump is asking for money to fix and replace some existing border fence and build a few new sections, according to Fox News.
Rep. Scott Peters joined 40 lawmakers from both parties in calling on Congress to reject President Trump's border wall and pass a spending bill to keep the government open.
He also points out that numerous people whose land will be seized to place the wall are ranches, who likely supported Trump and will ultimately have him to thank for taking pieces of their ranches.
Until Monday, the biggest sticking point had been funding for the border wall, but the White House is conceding on that demand, deferring that fight until later this year, when funding for 2018 comes up, according to senior administration officials, CBS News' Major Garrett reported Monday.
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The simple political fact is that a government shutdown would be a massive political problem for Republicans. "We've got a lot of time".
"If the negotiation on other themes - immigration, the border, trade - isn't satisfactory to Mexico's interests, we will have to review our existing cooperation", Videgaray said.
On Monday, White House spokesperson Sean Spicer said that administration negotiators were "very confident" a shutdown would not occur.
In the face of a shutdown, Trump and Sessions pleaded with lawmakers and the public to consider including the $1 billion funding request in their proposed budget.
The negotiations over the spending bill took center stage despite a separate White House push for fast action to revive health care legislation to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The White House was also hoping for a revival of the failed health care efforts ahead of that marker. There was going to be a border wall, and at every rally he would shout out: "And who's going to pay for it?" In the House, conservatives led by the Freedom Caucus and other fiscal hawks have regularly bolted on spending bills, and Democrats have provided enough votes for passage.
But states could obtain federal waivers to some of those requirements.
On Sunday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declared that the Democrats would not approve a penny for the border wall, which she called "immoral, expensive, unwise".
The original GOP bill eliminated numerous mandates, offered skimpier subsidies for consumers to buy care and rolled back a Medicaid expansion.
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