The partial government shutdown on Saturday became the longest in US history, to overcome during the first hours, the 21 days that lasted a closure of the government in 1996 during then President Bill Clinton.
The federal budget expired on December 22 and since then Democrats and Republicans can not agree to pass a law that allows the government to reopen, but that it meets the requirements of President Donald Trump to secure the US border with Mexico that revolves around the construction of the wall.
On the one hand, the Democrats consider that it is not necessary to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico and they have even considered it “immoral”, but for President Trump it is essential and he is willing to achieve it even if he has to declare a national emergency.
The president said on Friday that for now, he will not declare a national emergency and that he prefers to let Congress act, but the question is, until when?
Even Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina urged President Trump on Friday to “declare a national emergency now. Build a wall now. “
For its part, the House of Representatives and the Senate voted to return federal workers the payment as soon as the federal government reopens. It would be missing only the signature of the president.
President Trump is asking Congress to allocate more than five billion dollars to build the wall within the budget.
