{"id":305111,"date":"2017-04-25T11:44:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T10:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-may-delay-mexico-wall-to-avoid-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2017-04-25T11:44:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T10:44:38","slug":"trump-may-delay-mexico-wall-to-avoid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-may-delay-mexico-wall-to-avoid-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump may delay Mexico wall to avoid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has signaled willingness to postpone his planned wall on the border with Mexico to prevent a government shutdown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump told conservative media outlets in a private meeting on Monday that he might put the plan on hold until Republicans draft a budget blueprint for the fiscal year that begins on October 1.<\/p>\n<p>Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Congress have been negotiating a short-term extension of the existing spending levels through September to avoid a government shutdown when the current spending bill ends on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats say they would only agree with the extension if Trump withdraws the wall funding.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump White House has asked for $1.4 billion as a down payment for the roughly $20 billion project, a request that has been met with strong bipartisan opposition in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>According to internal estimates by the US Department of Homeland Security, the total cost of the border barrier would stand at about $21.6&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/04\/25\/519404\/US-Trump-Mexico-wall-shutdown-Schumer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has signaled willingness to postpone his planned wall on the border with Mexico to prevent a government shutdown. Trump told conservative media outlets in a private meeting on Monday that he might put the plan on hold until Republicans draft a budget blueprint for the fiscal year that begins on October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-305111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}