But while the idea is a priority of Mr Trump's most fervent supporters, it is resolutely opposed by Democrats and even many Republicans, who see it as wasteful and who prefer other steps like new technologies and additional border agents to curb illegal immigration.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration softened its hardline stance demanding Congress include funding for his proposed Mexico border wall in the budget bill, which Democratic lawmakers have refused to support, warning Republicans that a shutdown could loom if they press the issue.
But there are still obstacles to passing a spending bill by Friday, sources tell CNN.
House Republicans introduced a stop-gap spending bill late Wednesday night to allow negotiations on a spending agreement to continue through May 5 without the threat of a government shutdown.
In the event invite, the organizers said protestors, who had voted for Trump and supported his campaigning for the border wall construction are ready to compromise on some aspects of the border wall.
"I think we should look at whatever we need to do to fund our national security and fund it", Scott said.
Videgaray said his government considered the building of the wall a "hostile" act and repeated it would contribute nothing towards it. Trump says Mexico will ultimately pay for the wall.
"They dropped this Obamacare bailout, these insurance company payments, about two weeks ago", Mulvaney said. Liberal lawmakers are blaming President Donald Trump for delays in approving the measure.
Mnuchin: Trump tax-cut plan about "unleashing economic growth"
A proposal to eliminate the estate tax should also be scuttled. The corporate income tax rate would be slashed to 15 percent.
He added that leadership would make the final decision on which course Congress takes this week.
Pelosi had demanded that the cost-sharing payments be guaranteed through an add-on to the must-pass spending bill. Among these is the issue of payment to health insurers.
But, Republicans argue that the payments are part of mandatory spending and therefore shouldn't be part of the negotiations. Last week he was noncommittal about the bill for its funding when interviewed. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a similar prediction earlier in the day. I don't know why people are talking. "They don't want security at the border, they never have, and we should not let them play linguistic or semantics games to try to pull down a mandate that the American people commanded when they went to the polls".
A Border Patrol vehicle sits along the U.S. -Mexico border wall on January 25, 2017 in San Ysidro, California.
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.
Asked by reporters when the wall would be built, Trump said, "Soon".
Trump has directed aides to move quickly on a plan to cut the corporate income tax rate to 15 percent from 35 percent, a Trump administration official said on Monday. The spending bill is expected to include several White House priorities, such as increases in border security and defense spending, including an unspecified amount to fix fencing and new surveillance technology to patrol the almost 2,000-mile border, the aides said. That's a good thing.
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