Wall Street Journal
By Julie Bykowicz and Michael C. Bender
February 06, 2018
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would accept a government shutdown if Congress doesn’t strike an immigration deal that includes stricter border enforcement.
Rep. Barbara Comstock, a Virginia Republican who is among her party’s most vulnerable House Republicans in the November elections, disagreed.
“We don’t need a government shutdown on this,” Ms. Comstock said, emphasizing that both parties see the downside of a shutdown, and there is bipartisan support for a crackdown on violent gangs.
Mr. Trump interrupted and reiterated a willingness to risk a shutdown over immigration policy.
“You can say what you want,” Mr. Trump said. “We are not getting support of the Democrats.”
The president repeated his position as reporters were ushered out of the room.
“I can’t speak for everybody at the table but I will tell you, I would shut it down over this issue,” Mr. Trump said. “I can’t speak for our great representatives here, but I have a feeling they may agree with me.”
Congress is gearing up this week to pass another short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown before current spending expires at 12:01 a.m. on Friday. The immigration debate has become entangled with spending negotiations, which caused an impasse that led to the three-day shutdown last month. But talks this week signal Democrats are willing to move forward with a budget deal without having secured an agreement on immigration.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said later that the president wasn’t demanding that the spending bill address immigration. “We don’t want to hold the government hostage over these items,” Ms. Sanders said.
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