Donald Trump threatens to ‘shut down’ government if Democrats don’t vote for border wall

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Donald Trump threatens to ‘shut down’ government if Democrats don’t vote for border wall

U.S. President Donald Trump said he’s “willing to” shut down the government if he doesn’t get the votes he needs on border security.

“I would be willing to ‘shut down’ government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall!” he wrote Sunday morning on Twitter.

“Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country!”

Typically government shutdowns occur when Congress fails to pass a spending bill for the year.

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The government shut down in January when Democrats and Republicans failed to reach a deal on how to handle immigration.

In a deleted tweet earlier that morning, Trump said there are “consequences when people cross our Border illegally” and claims many who do so are “using children for their own sinister purposes,” and called immigration laws the “dumbest” in the world.

That came after U.S. government officials said more than 1,800 children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border have been reunited with parents and sponsors after a federal judge ordered the reunions. Hundreds of children still remain separated.

Trump said he met with the publisher of the New York Times at the White House on Sunday morning, and discussed the “fake news” and his comments where he called the media the “enemy of the people.”

“Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, ‘Enemy of the People.’ Sad!” Trump tweeted on Sunday.

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