According to The Hill who cites sources within the Senate, Donald Trump is about to approve a three week to 45 day continuing resolution to reopen the Government without border wall money.
Via The Hill:
A Senate source said Trump is looking at a three week to 45-day stopgap measure that would reopen the government and allow negotiations to continue on funding a wall on the Mexican border — the issue that led to the shutdown. The bill would not include funds for the wall.
Details of the proposal are in flux, however, and won’t be final until Trump speaks, the source said.
A second source also said talks were centered on a three-week stopgap.
The Senate source said Trump may also announce on Friday a backstop — such as declaring a national emergency if Congress fails to produce a result at the end of the stopgap.
UPDATE: Donald Trump announces from the Rose Garden that a deal had been reached to reopen the Federal Government saying that he had other powerful options open to him but that he didn’t want to go that route.
The Government will be open for three-weeks until February 15 allowing lawmakers on the Hill to further debate border funding which presumably means money for Donald Trump’s nonsensical border wall.
Ironically enough, this is basically the same continuing resolution that Donald Trump walked away from back in February.
