{"id":390532,"date":"2018-12-26T01:48:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T00:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/shutdown-will-not-end-until-wall-funded\/"},"modified":"2018-12-26T01:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T00:48:28","slug":"shutdown-will-not-end-until-wall-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/shutdown-will-not-end-until-wall-funded\/","title":{"rendered":"Shutdown will not end until wall funded"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>US President Donald Trump says government shutdown will continue unless he secures the desired funding for building a border wall with Mexico.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Speaking after a Christmas Day video message on Tuesday, Trump insisted that the partial shutdown of the federal government would last until his demand for funds to build a wall on the US-Mexico border was met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cI can&#8217;t tell you when the government is going to be open,\u201d he said. \u201cI can tell you, it&#8217;s not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they&#8217;d like to call it. I&#8217;ll call it whatever they want \u2026 If you don&#8217;t have that [wall], then we&#8217;re just not opening.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Trump expressed hope that the wall would be completed by the next presidential election in 2020, also announcing plans to go to the border in January to visit a new stretch of wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;It&#8217;s my hope to have this done, completed &#8212; all 500 to 550 miles &#8212; to have it either renovated or brand new by election time, It&#8217;s going&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/25\/583965\/Donald-Trump-border-wall-government-shutdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump says government shutdown will continue unless he secures the desired funding for building a border wall with Mexico. Speaking after a Christmas Day video message on Tuesday, Trump insisted that the partial shutdown of the federal government would last until his demand for funds to build a wall on the US-Mexico [&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-390532","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\/390532","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=390532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}