Tag: Border

Pete Sessions: Trump’s ‘demand’ for border wall is putting pressure on spending deal

Pete Sessions: Trump’s ‘demand’ for border wall is putting pressure on spending deal

Kyle Feldscher · April 24, 2017 1:48 pm

President Trump's border wall between the United States and Mexico, and his pledge to force Mexico to pay for it, was his most consistent policy pitch from the campaign trail. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Trump won’t commit to signing spending bill that doesn’t fund his border wall

Kyle Feldscher · April 24, 2017 12:10 pm

"Eventually, but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico will be paying, in some form, for the badly needed wall," Trump tweeted. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

National Security

Trump defends border wall: It would stop drugs and ‘very bad’ gang members

Robert King · April 23, 2017 4:55 pm

"Obamacare is in serious trouble," Trump tweeted. "The Dems need big money to keep it going — otherwise it dies far sooner than anyone would have thought." (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Trump: Democrats need ‘big money’ to save Obamacare

Robert King · April 23, 2017 3:57 pm

"We cannot shut down the government right now," Sen. Marco Rubio said. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Sen. Marco Rubio: Government shutdown would be ‘catastrophic’ for the world

Anna Giaritelli · April 23, 2017 3:28 pm

"It will be enough in the negotiation for us to move forward with either the construction or the planning for the border wall and border security," Priebus said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Reince Priebus confident of border security victory in spending bill deal

Robert King · April 23, 2017 3:00 pm

"The Democrats do not support the wall and I think the Republicans on the border states do not support the wall," she said. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pelosi: Building a border wall is a ‘sign of weakness’

Robert King · April 23, 2017 2:45 pm

The attorney general said the $21 billion Mexico-U.S. wall will pay itself off. (Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

National Security

Jeff Sessions: Border wall ‘will save us billions of dollars’

Anna Giaritelli · April 23, 2017 2:19 pm

"No one foresees or wants a shutdown next week," said Mick Mulvaney. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

OMB Director Mick Mulvaney plays down shutdown talks

Robert King · April 23, 2017 1:45 pm

"This bill is a pale imitation of the original bill. It overpromises and underdelivers," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on the Senate floor Wednesday. (AP Photo)

Sen. Dick Durbin: Border wall a ‘political stunt’

Robert King · April 23, 2017 1:33 pm

"I would suspect that he'll be insistent for funding" on the border wall, Kelly said. (Ruben R. Ramierz/The El Paso Times via AP)

National Security

DHS chief John Kelly: Trump will ‘be insistent’ for border wall funding

Anna Giaritelli · April 23, 2017 1:02 pm

"What happened is the American people won, and the president negotiated that victory for them," Mulvaney said. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mulvaney offers Democrats insurer payments for border wall funding

Robert King · April 21, 2017 8:25 pm