President Trump will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border this week amid a partial government shutdown triggered by his demand for wall funding, the White House announced on Monday.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump will “meet with those on the frontlines” of what the administration is calling “the national security and humanitarian crisis” at the southwest border.
The trip would come on the 20th day of the partial shutdown if Congress does not pass a funding bill to reopen the closed parts of government before then.
Read more at The Hill.
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