U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Texas on Thursday, Jan. 10, after threatening to use emergency powers to bypass Congress and get billions of dollars to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border amid the 20th day of a U.S. government partial shutdown.
U.S. President Donald Trump headed Thursday to the U.S.-Mexico border for a firsthand look at efforts to thwart illegal immigration, a day after declaring that talks with opposition Democratic leaders on border security and the partial government shutdown were a "total waste of time."
Before leaving for McAllen, Texas, Trump said on Twitter there is "GREAT unity" among Republican lawmakers who support him keeping a quarter of the federal government closed in a dispute over his demand for more than $5 billion in new funding for a wall, "despite the Fake News Media working in overdrive to make the story look otherwise." Democrats have offered $1.3 billion in new funding for border security, but none for a wall.

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