{"id":391917,"date":"2019-01-07T09:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T08:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-offers-steel-for-his-wall-as-compromise-with-dems\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:09:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T08:09:35","slug":"presstv-trump-offers-steel-for-his-wall-as-compromise-with-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-offers-steel-for-his-wall-as-compromise-with-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump offers steel for his wall as compromise with Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump says he will not bend in his demand for a wall along the US border with Mexico but notes that steel could be used instead of concrete to build the barrier as a potential compromise with Democrats who are refusing to fund it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump made the remarks on Sunday at the start of the third week of a partial government shutdown that has forced nearly 800,000 federal employees to either work without pay or go on unpaid leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very important battle to win from the standpoint of safety, number one, (and) defining our country and who we are,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe barrier, or the wall, can be of steel instead of concrete, if that helps people. It may be better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mick Mulvaney, Trump\u2019s acting chief of staff, said the option would allow Democrats to continue refusing to fund the wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat should help us move in the right direction,\u201d Mulvaney told NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/07\/585083\/US-Donald-Trump-border-wall-democrats\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump says he will not bend in his demand for a wall along the US border with Mexico but notes that steel could be used instead of concrete to build the barrier as a potential compromise with Democrats who are refusing to fund it. Trump made the remarks on Sunday at the start [&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-391917","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\/391917","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=391917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}