once again the ticking of the clock ever closer to a new myndighetskris in Washington. At midnight Friday, February 15, will parts of the federal government to shut down again if congress can’t agree on border security before its. The weekend’s failed negotiations did not suggest it.
republicans said on Sunday that they have not been able to reach a solution regarding the financing of the border guard. Donald Trump and many republicans want to see a physical boundary wall against Mexico, but the Democrats have made it clear that they do not intend to finance it.
Senator Richard Shelby, republican from Alabama, said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday that he believes the probability that they reach a solution during the week as “50-50“. White house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said, however, that he believes that the two parties will find an agreement so that a new myndighetskris can be avoided.
According to the Democrats, in case of conflict the controversial authority the ICE, which is responsible for deporting undocumented immigrants. The republicans want to expand the resources to ICE for gränsfängelser, which the Democrats are against.
”I don’t think that the Democrats have been given permission by their leaders to make an agreement. They offer very little money for the desperately needed gränsmuren and now they want to suddenly put a ceiling on the number of convicted criminals that may be held in a prison”, wrote Donald Trump on Twitter after the negotiations.
at the same time shown that they can think of to cooperate with the Democrats to find solutions other than a boundary wall. Trump is attached to the idea of gränsmuren, but few experts see it as a good idea to stop immigration across the border. And with that, Trump refuses to go along with other solutions, the negotiations do not come forward.
the President’s handling of this winter’s first myndighetskris was a political defeat. He was forced to give way to Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the house of representatives, first when it came to her demands to postpone the president’s annual speech to the nation, and then when it comes to the financing of the gränsmuren. After 35 days of closed government agencies, a historical record, went Trump to temporarily open the authorities again, but still requires that the wall be financed in the new negotiations.
fell during the crisis, especially among the low income earners who may have been directly affected by the closed authorities. Myndighetskrisen is estimated to have also cost the u.s. economy $ 11 billion.
On Monday, keeps Donald Trump speech at the mexican border, in El Paso, Texas, in a new attempt to convince the american people of the importance of a boundary wall. Two out of three americans say in opinion polls that they do not want to have any boundary wall.
