Trump threatens in the Etatstreit with the imposition of a state of emergency News

According to a further summit meeting to the US-Etatstreit rumbles of the President: The Shutdown could last for months and bring a possible state of emergency to the game. Nevertheless, there was little progress.

By Jan Bösche, ARD-Studio, Washington

parts of U.S. government agencies are closed for two weeks - and it is not in sight when they will be re-opened. President Trump said it could still take months.

The second Meeting of Trump and members of Congress this week passed without result. The Democrat Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives, said that the Meeting had at times been controversial: "We can't solve this if we open the government authorities. Services to be held back, people are not paid to serve the Americans, our border security will not suffer if we can solve the Problem."

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continue to oppose it, and President of the Trump more than five billion dollars to provide for a wall on the border to Mexico. After all, both sides agreed to have their experts over the weekend to continue negotiations. A solution could be then at the earliest in the next week.

President Trump joined shortly after the Democrats in front of the press for over an hour he talked about the Shutdown and border security. Trump had accused the Democrats in the past, to be for open borders. Now he said that there is quite common interests: "We agree that we need to make the border larger and more powerful. Equipment which can detect drugs. There are now good things, we have, for budget reasons. We will strengthen our border crossings."

a state of emergency could have legal consequences

Trump always came back to the situation at the border. From the point of view of his government there's a crisis on the border to Mexico - and only a wall can solve this crisis. Trump also spoke of the drastic steps: "We will be able to declare a national state of emergency, due to the security of our country. We can do that, have not done it yet. Maybe I'm doing it. We can declare a state of emergency and the wall very quickly build. This is another way to do it."

So he would determine, however, the sovereignty of Congress under the trench, about to spend the money. Court procedures could be the result.

more Likely to be a package solution is: For example, the Problem of young people could be solved, who had come as children without valid papers in the US. Your legal Status is open. In addition, the question of how flexible the Trump in question is, as a border protection. A solid wall made of concrete? Or is it something else? "We need border security. If we do what the Democrats want to may be built on the border of things here in the USA. Of steel firms, which were practically closed when I was President. Now you have blossomed, it is a miracle. The industry was almost dead, now it is booming."

Shutdown affect security controls

A Trump made it clear: as Long as the border issue is not resolved, he would not agree to any transitional household. The Republican majority in the Senate supports him, although a few of the senators argued that to Finance at least the parts of government that have to do with homeland protection, and border.

From the Shutdown more than 800,000 government employees will be affected. A good half of them have to work without salary, FBI agents, air traffic controllers and security forces at the airports. CNN reported at several airports, the security forces reported increased sick. This will lead to longer queues at security control.

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