Trump Pressures Democrats on Obamacare to Get Border Wall Deal

Trump Pressures Democrats on Obamacare to Get Border Wall Deal
President Donald Trump during a strategic and policy CEO discussion in the Eisenhower Execution Office Building in Washington on April 11, 2017. (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)
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4/23/2017
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4/23/2017

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks about President Donald Trump's budget in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on March 16, 2017. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks about President Donald Trump's budget in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on March 16, 2017. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

“We'd ask him to let us do our work, not throw in some last-minute poison pills that could undo it, and we could get this done,” Schumer told reporters.

Trump wants the money included in spending legislation that Congress must pass by Friday to keep the federal government operating through Sept. 30, when the 2017 fiscal year expires.

Mulvaney and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus played down the danger of a shutdown. Mulvaney said talks between Republicans and Democrats could produce an agreement as early as Sunday.

If talks fail, the government would shut down on Saturday, Trump’s 100th day in office.