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Parks have been closed due to staff furloughs, though the administration has begun using fee collections to re-start services such as trash collection and restroom cleanup, according to a letter Sunday
[jwp-video n=”1″] The role of his conservative base, without whom his chances of winning re-election are almost zero, cannot be underplayed in the shutdown standoff.
Pence before Christmas offered over $2 billion for the wall and another $400 million for other border security tools to Senate Democrats.
Saturday tweets appears, yet again, aimed directly at the president’s core conservative supporters who fiercely want a border wall and despite Democratic leaders like Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate
But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said staffs of congressional leaders and the president will negotiate over the weekend in hopes of ending the partial government shutdown.
At one point, the president confirmed something Senate Minority Leader Charles E.