{"id":198320,"date":"2019-01-19T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=198320"},"modified":"2025-01-09T07:05:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T12:05:57","slug":"trump-plans-to-make-major-announcement-on-shutdown-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/19\/trump-plans-to-make-major-announcement-on-shutdown-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump plans to make ‘major announcement’ on shutdown, border"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President of the United States Donald J. Trump at CPAC 2017 February 24th 2017 by Michael Vadon (Photo<\/a>: Michael Vadon\/Flickr,<\/a> CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald\u00a0Trump\u00a0said he’ll be making a \u201cmajor announcement\u201d on the government shutdown and the southern border on Saturday afternoon as the standstill over his border wall continues into its fifth week.<\/p>\n

The White House declined to provide details late Friday about what the president would be announcing. But\u00a0Trump\u00a0was not expected to sign the national emergency declaration he’s been threatening as an option to circumvent Congress, according to two people familiar with the planning.<\/p>\n

Instead,\u00a0Trump\u00a0was expected to propose the outlines of a new deal that the administration believes could potentially pave the way to an end to the shutdown, according to one of the people. They were not authorized to discuss the announcement and spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

The move \u2014 on Day 28 of a shutdown that has left hundreds of thousands of federal workers without paychecks \u2014 represents the first major overture by the president since Jan. 8, when he delivered an Oval Office address making the public case for his border wall. The president and his aides have said he will not budge on his demand for $5.7 billion in funding. Democrats have panned the number and said they will not negotiate until the government reopens, raising questions about how\u00a0Trump\u00a0might move the ball forward.<\/p>\n

In a video posted on his Twitter feed late Friday,\u00a0Trump\u00a0said both sides should \u201ctake the politics out of it\u201d and \u201cget to work\u201d to \u201cmake a deal.\u201d But he also repeated his warnings, saying: \u201cWe have to secure our southern border. If we don’t do that, we’re a very, very sad and foolish lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said only that\u00a0Trump\u00a0was \u201cgoing to continue fighting for border security\u201d and \u201cgoing to continue looking for the solution\u201d to end what the administration had repeatedly referred to as a \u201chumanitarian and national security crisis at the border.\u201d<\/p>\n

While few would argue that a humanitarian crisis is unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border, as the demand for entry by migrants and the\u00a0Trump\u00a0administration’s hardline response overwhelm border resources, critics say\u00a0Trump\u00a0has dramatically exaggerated the security risks and argue that a wall would do little to solve existing problems.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0will be speaking from the Diplomatic Room at 3 p.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s Friday evening tweeted announcement came after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday cancelled her plans to travel by commercial plane to visit U.S. troops in Afghanistan, saying\u00a0Trump\u00a0had caused a security risk by talking about the trip. The White House said there was no such leak.<\/p>\n

It was the latest turn \u2014 and potentially the most dangerous \u2014 in the high-stakes brinkmanship between\u00a0Trump\u00a0and Pelosi that has been playing out against the stalled negotiations over how to end the partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n

And it showed once again the willingness of the former hard-charging businessman to hit hard when challenged, as he was earlier this week when Pelosi suggested postponing his State of the Union address until after the shutdown.<\/p>\n

Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, said the back-and-forth \u201cgives new meaning\u201d to tensions between the executive and legislative branches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are public back and forths,\u201d he said, citing relations between past presidents and House speakers. \u201cBut this kind of tensions, preventing the speaker from visiting the troops and the speaker suggesting the White House leaked information about a crucial flight, this is one more example of where Trumpism brings us into new territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

The political stakes are high as the shutdown moves into a fifth week, with hundreds of thousands of federal workers going without pay and no outward signs of resolution.<\/p>\n

Sanders on Friday stressed the importance of a looming Tuesday deadline to process paychecks, when the government will need to decide if workers get another round of zeros on Friday’s payday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the key reasons that the president did not want Speaker Pelosi to leave the country is because, if she did, it would all but guarantee the fact that the negotiations couldn’t take place over the weekend,\u201d Sanders told reporters.<\/p>\n

It was an unusually combative week between the executive and legislative branches.<\/p>\n

Tensions flared when Pelosi suggested\u00a0Trump\u00a0postpone the annual State of the Union address, a grand Washington tradition \u2014 and a platform for his border wall fight with Democrats \u2014 that was tentatively scheduled for Jan. 29.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0never responded directly. Instead, he abruptly cancelled Pelosi’s military flight on Thursday, hours before she and a congressional delegation were to depart for Afghanistan on the previously undisclosed visit to U.S. troops.<\/p>\n

Trump\u00a0belittled the trip as a \u201cpublic relations event\u201d \u2014 even though he had just made a similar stop in a conflict zone during the shutdown \u2014 and said it would be best if Pelosi remained in Washington to negotiate to reopen the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative,\u201d wrote\u00a0Trump.<\/p>\n

Pelosi, undeterred, quietly began making her own preparations for the overseas trip.<\/p>\n

But on Friday, Pelosi said her plan to travel by commercial plane had been \u201cleaked\u201d by the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe administration leaked that we were travelling commercially,\u201d Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol.<\/p>\n

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She said it was \u201cvery irresponsible on the part of the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the State Department told her \u201cthe president outing\u201d the original trip made the scene on the ground in Afghanistan \u201cmore dangerous because it’s a signal to the bad actors that we’re coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House said it had leaked nothing that would cause a security risk.<\/p>\n

Trump’s trip to Iraq after Christmas was not disclosed in advance for security reasons.<\/p>\n

Denying military aircraft to a senior lawmaker \u2014 let alone the speaker, who is second in line to the presidency after the vice-president, travelling to a combat region \u2014 is very rare.<\/p>\n

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California slammed\u00a0Trump\u00a0for revealing the closely held travel plan, calling it \u201ccompletely and utterly irresponsible in every way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some Republicans expressed frustration. Sen. Lindsey Graham tweeted, \u201cOne sophomoric response does not deserve another.\u201d He called Pelosi’s State of the Union move \u201cvery irresponsible and blatantly political\u201d but said\u00a0Trump’s reaction was \u201calso inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House also cancelled plans for a presidential delegation to travel to an economic forum in Switzerland next week, citing the shutdown. And it said future congressional trips would be postponed until the shutdown is resolved, though it was not immediately clear if any such travel \u2014 which often is not disclosed in advance \u2014 was coming up.<\/p>\n

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For AP’s complete coverage of the U.S. government shutdown: https:\/\/apnews.com\/GovernmentShutdown<\/p>\n

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Associated Press writers Deb Riechmann, Kevin Freking, Jon Lemire, Matthew Daly, Andy Taylor, Mary Clare Jalonick, Matt Lee and Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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