Tensions rising between Trump, Democrats over shutdown
US President Donald Trump said he'll be making a "major announcement" on Saturday about the country’s longest-ever government shutdown and a wall on the US-Mexico border amid rising tensions between the White House and Democrats in Congress over how to end the shutdown.
Trump was expected to propose the outlines of a new deal with Democratic lawmakers that the administration believes could potentially pave the way to an end to the shutdown, the Associated Press reported, citing a White House aide.
Trump was not expected to sign the national emergency declaration he’s been threatening as an option to circumvent Congress, the AP report said.
The White House declined to provide details late Friday about what the president would be announcing.
Trump has 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 doubts about Trump’s ability to resolve the crisis.
Tensions flared when US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Trump postpone the upcoming annual State of the Union address, a platform Trump intends to use for his border wall fight with Democrats.
Trump responded indirectly canceling Pelosi's military flight on Thursday, hours before she and a congressional delegation were to depart for Afghanistan on the previously undisclosed visit to US troops.
Pelosi, a Democrat from California, on Friday canceled her plans to travel by commercial plane to visit the US troops, saying Trump had caused a security risk by publicly announcing the trip.
The back-and-forth "gives new meaning" to tensions between the executive and legislative branches, Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, told the AP.
"There are public back and forths," he said, citing relations between past presidents and House speakers.
"But 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."
Recent poll also show that most Americans blame Trump for the shutdown and oppose a border wall.
Surveys show Trump is losing support among his voter base and other groups amid the political standoff and his border wall demand that led the government shutdown.
Recent poll also show that most Americans blame Trump for the shutdown and oppose a border wall.
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