US President Donald Trump
has temporarily suspended his plans to erect an expensive border
between Mexico and the U.S as a fulfillment of his election campaign
promise.
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President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump is pulling back from his threat to hold
Obamacare hostage in order to get a down payment on his US-Mexico border
wall.
Late Monday, Trump told roughly 20 conservative reporters that he
was going to revisit the question of funding his border wall in
September, according to a report by ABC News.
He did this to avoid a government shutdown, which will occur on
Saturday if Congress fails to pass a $1 trillion spending bill. Although
Trump had previously indicated that he would hold certain aspects of
Obamacare hostage if he couldn’t receive border wall funding,
congressional Democrats were adamant that they would not support funding
his border wall, while many of Trump’s fellow Republicans were
reluctant to allow the government to shut down over the measure.
Although the border wall is believed to cost more than $20 billion,
Trump was hoping to receive $1.4 billion as a down payment in order to
get construction started.
Considering that this would fall on the 100th day of Trump’s
presidency, it is likely that he would not want this particular
milestone to coincide with such a disastrous event.
“It’s good for the country that President Trump is taking the
wall off the table in these negotiations. Now the bipartisan and
bicameral negotiators can continue working on the outstanding issues,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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