President Trump’s battle with Democrats to fund a border wall spilled out into public view on Tuesday, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., challenged Trump’s request for more border funding and Trump argued back that Americans are demanding a barrier to keep out illegal immigrants.
The 15-minute meeting between the political opponents started cordially, but it ran off the rails after Pelosi warned that Trump’s hard-line position on the wall would lead to a “Trump shutdown.”
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