Washington • President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he intends to keep the federal government closed until he secures the desired funding from Congress for his promised border wall and claimed that “many” federal workers have urged him to continue the shutdown because they support building a wall.
In an Oval Office appearance on Christmas morning, Trump defended his plan to construct a wall along the border with Mexico that he insisted only an Olympic athlete would be able to scale.
About 25 percent of the government is shut down for the fourth straight day with Congress at a stalemate over Trump’s demand for $5 billion in wall construction money.