Trump says he'll insist on border wall funding

by Pete Kasperowicz | Oct 16, 2017, 2:31 PM

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President Trump and Republicans have said the spending bill for fiscal year 2018 must include funding for the border wall. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)


President Trump said Monday that he would insist on the inclusion of funding for the U.S.-Mexico border wall in the spending bill for the next fiscal year.

"Our country needs a wall," he said when asked whether he would demand the wall. "Mexico, you see what's happening there, you see what just happened yesterday with one of their big political leaders."

Trump wasn't specific, but one of Mexico's leftist leaders was discovered slain late Saturday.

"Drugs are pouring across our border, we're stopping it, but we need a wall to really stop it. We need a wall in this country," he said. "You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. We have to have a wall, so that's going to be part of it."

Trump and Republicans have said the spending bill for fiscal year 2018 must include funding for the border wall, and appear to be willing to trade that funding for some new legislative arrangement to protect immigrants who came to the country illegally as children. Trump said he would rescind the Executive Branch program that former President Barack Obama created to that end.

But Democrats have argued funding for the wall is a nonstarter, and have threatened to shut down the government rather than approve a spending bill that includes funding.

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