Trump threatens shutdown if Democrats oppose bill for border wall money

US President Donald Trump is threatened to shut down the US government if Democrats don’t go along with his demand for border wall money, “there will be a shutdown that will last for a very long time.”

Last week, Trump said he would be “proud” to shut down the government, which Republicans now control, in the name of border security.

I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down, he asserted.

But with the hours dwindling before the midnight deadline, Mr Trump sought to reframe the debate and make Democrats the holdouts to settling an impasse that threatens hundreds of thousands of federal workers on the eve of the end-of-the-year holidays.

And he exhorted the Senate’s Republican leader to corral enough Democratic votes to send a House-passed plan to the White House, even though the measure is almost certain to be rejected in the Senate.

Senator Mitch McConnell should fight for the Wall and Border Security as hard as he fought for anything. He will need Democrat votes, but as shown in the House, good things happen. If enough Dems don’t vote, it will be a Democrat Shutdown! he tweeted.

At the same time, Trump tweeted he expected Democrats “will probably vote against Border Security and the Wall even though they know it is DESPERATELY NEEDED. If the Dems vote no, there will be a shutdown that will last for a very long time. People don’t want Open Borders and Crime!”