WASHINGTON—As the partial government shutdown heads into its third week, the president has made it clear he won’t sign a spending bill that doesn’t contain $5.6 billion toward a wall on the Southwest border. Vice President Mike Pence met with congressional representatives over the weekend to try to hash out a deal.
President Donald Trump has brought out border agents and the Homeland Security secretary to emphasize how a wall could diminish cross-border crime, while Democrats have continued to say that a wall would be expensive and ineffective.
