US President Donald trump has blasted Democrats in the House of Representatives for excluding his border wall from their proposal to end the partial shutdown of the government.
The shutdown began 10 days ago, after Democrat and Republican lawmakers failed to agree on a spending bill that included $5 billion for the wall on the border with Mexico.
Responding to reports of a Democratic package of bills that would re-open the federal government without giving him the wall, Trump said Tuesday that he would accept no alternative offers.
“The Democrats will probably submit a Bill, being cute as always, which gives everything away but gives NOTHING to Border Security, namely the Wall. You see, without the Wall there can be no Border Security – the Tech “stuff” is just, by comparison, meaningless bells & whistles,” the president wrote in the first tweet after his New Year message.
“Remember this. Throughout the ages some things NEVER get…