Despite reportedly caving on including funding for the border wall in an upcoming spending bill, President Trump still wants to start building the wall at some point and easing up on it right now doesn't signal that it's no longer a priority, got it?
When asked when the wall would be built, Trump said, "Soon".
Democrats have leverage because Republicans lack the votes in the Senate to pass spending legislation on their own and because Republican leadership fears the GOP would be blamed for a government shutdown.
Trump has threatened to scuttle payments the government makes to insurers under Obama's law that help low-income people afford coverage, a move strongly opposed by Democrats. Freedom Caucus opposition was a key ingredient in the legislation's collapse a month ago, a humiliating episode for Republicans that called into question their ability to govern given that they've been promising for seven years to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. According to ABC News, the payments will continue even if there's no specific language that guarantees them in the spending bill.
Even as Mulvaney said Trump would sign a government spending bill that does not include border wall funding, he insisted: "We're not backing down".
"Sixty-one percent of registered voters say funding a wall along the nation's southern border is "not important enough to prompt a shutdown", the poll stated". A congressional aide confirmed Tuesday that Republicans had presented Democrats with a new legislative proposal that did not include any money for a border wall.
"Yeah, because the bill, at least the offer that we received from the Democrats the last couple days, included a good bit of money for security", he said on CNN. Otherwise, he said. there has been "good progress" in the ongoing negotiations.
"It's not insurmountable" the aide said, but admitted the talks "are going slower than expected".
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Republicans in Congress are now trying to strong arm Democrats into giving him the cash, and they are using health insurance and the shutdown deadline as leverage.
Mulvaney told CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday that Democrats had made their request on Obamacare subsidies too late in the negotiating process.
The best possible explanation for the White House in all of this is that there was/is simply confusion about what fiscal year Trump was talking about.
House Republican leaders remain intentionally vague about a date on healthcare legislation, in an attempt to avoid an "artificial deadline" that can not be met. Republicans were embarrassed after Speaker Paul Ryan canceled a scheduled vote on the healthcare bill because it lacked support. "But there will never be a 2,200-mile wall built".
Trump had requested that Congress provide USA funds to begin the wall, but he signaled Monday that he would not insist on it, saying he might be willing to wait until September for the funding.
"We're already preparing. We're doing plans, we're doing specifications, we're doing a lot of work on the wall, and the wall is going to get built", he added.
But Trump's comments earned a swift rebuke Tuesday from prominent conservatives, including radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who told his millions of listeners that Trump is "caving on his demand" for money to build a border wall.
Luis Videgaray, Mexico's foreign relations secretary, joined the chorus of wall detractors, calling the president's plan an "unfriendly, hostile" act that undermines the good relationship enjoyed by the USA and Mexico.
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