President Donald Trump said Wednesday that a government shutdown 'could happen' and it will be Democrats' fault if it does.
Trump
claimed the minority party wants illegal immigrants 'pouring into our
country' and they'll close the government's doors during the holiday
season to keep the nation's porous borders open.
'We
don't want to have that. We want to have a great, beautiful crime-free
country,' Trump said during a cabinet meeting. 'We want people to come
into our country, but we want them to come on our basis.'
Funding for the government runs out
Friday, however, GOP leaders have set a plan in motion to keep the money
flowing until later in the month. Trump has a meeting with senior
leaders of both parties at the White House on Thursday to discuss a
long-term spending bill that incorporates measures both sides want.
Lawmakers
in the Democratic Party are threatening to let federal spending
authority lapse if Trump denies illegal immigrants who came to the
country as children safe haven.
Trump
had been supportive of a legislative solution to the immigrants' plight
but says he wants to couple permission for them to stay with a total
overhaul of the system.
The Republican
president wants to switch the U.S. to a merit-based immigration system
to cut down on 'chain migration' practices that allow extended family
members of legal residents to apply for and receive visas.
He
has also demanded that Congress appropriate funds for his proposed
border wall, which he says is a matter of national security.
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