Trump Threatens To Partially Shut Government For Months

U.S. President Donald Trump, center, speaks in front of a poster that reads "Sanctions Are Coming" during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019. Trump insisted the U.S. needs some kind of physical barrier along the frontier with Mexico, just a few hours before a meeting with congressional leaders aimed at breaking a stalemate over border wall funding thats kept parts of the federal government shut down for 12 days. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to keep the U.S. government partially shut for months or years.

He stated this after his meeting with Democratic leaders failed to resolve their dispute over Trump’s request for $5.6 billion to build a wall on the Mexican border.

After Democratic congressional leaders refused Trump’s requests at a meeting in the White House Situation Room, Trump threatened to take the controversial step of declaring a national emergency and building the wall without congressional approval.

Trump is withholding his support for a bill that would fully fund the government until he secures money for the wall. As a result, around 800,000 public workers have been unpaid, with about a quarter of the federal government closed for two weeks.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats had told Trump during the meeting to end the shutdown.

Schumer said, “He resisted. In fact, he said he’d keep the government closed for a very long period of time, months or even years.”

Trump confirmed that comment but painted a more positive picture of the meeting, the first since a new era of divided government began when Democrats took control of the House of Representatives on Thursday.

“We had a very, very productive meeting, and we’ve come a long way,” Trump said.

The President later told reporters that Nancy Pelosi, the new speaker of the House of Representatives, said Democrats were not looking to impeach him.

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