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NATION Thursday, January 10, 2019 East Oregonian A7 Trump stalks out of shutdown session with Dems White House tries to hold jittery GOP in line By CATHERINE LUCEY, LISA MASCARO AND LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — Pres- ident Donald Trump stalked out of his negotiating meet- ing with congressional lead- ers on Wednesday — “I said bye-bye,” he tweeted soon after — as efforts to end the 19-day partial gov- ernment shutdown fell into deeper disarray over his demand for billions of dol- lars to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Hun- dreds of thousands of fed- eral workers now face lost paychecks on Friday. The president is to visit the border in person on Thursday, but he has expressed his own doubts that his appearance and remarks will change any minds. The brief session in the White House Situation Room ended almost as soon as it began. Democrats said they asked Trump to reopen the government but he told them if he did they wouldn’t give him money for the wall that has been his signature promise since his presiden- tial campaign two years ago. Republicans said Trump posed a direct question to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: If he opened the government would she fund the wall? She said no. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Trump slammed his hand on the table and walked out. Republicans said Trump, who passed out candy at the start of the meeting, did not raise his voice and there was AP Photo/Andrew Harnik/ President Donald Trump waves to members of the media as he arrives for a Senate Republican Policy lunch on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. no table pounding. One result was certain: The shutdown plunged into new territory with no end- game in sight. The Demo- crats see the idea of the long, impenetrable wall as inef- fective and even immoral, a terrible use of the $5.7 bil- lion Trump is asking. He sees it as an absolute neces- sity to stop what he calls a crisis of illegal immigration, drug-smuggling and human trafficking at the border. “The president made clear today that he is going to stand firm to achieve his priorities to build a wall — a steel barrier — at the south- ern border,” Vice President Mike Pence told reporters afterward. That insistence and Trump’s walking out were “really, really unfortunate,” said Schumer. Trump had just returned from Capitol Hill where he urged jittery congres- sional Republicans to hold firm with him. He sug- gested a deal for his border wall might be getting closer, but he also said the shut- down would last “whatever it takes.” He discussed the possi- bility of a sweeping immi- gration compromise with Democrats to protect some immigrants from depor- tation but provided no clear strategy or timeline for resolving the standoff, according to senators in the private session. He left the Republican lunch boast- ing of “a very, very uni- fied party,” but GOP sena- tors are publicly uneasy as the standoff ripples across the lives of Americans and interrupts the economy. Trump insisted at the White House “I didn’t want this fight.” But it was his sudden rejection of a bipar- tisan spending bill late last month that blindsided lead- ers in Congress, includ- ing Republican allies, now seeking a resolution to the shutdown. GOP unity was being tested further late Wednes- day with the House voting on a bipartisan bill to reopen one shuttered department, Treasury, to ensure that tax refunds and other financial services continue. Republi- cans were expected to join Democrats in voting, defy- ing the plea to stay with the White House. Ahead of his visit to Cap- itol Hill, Trump renewed his notice that he might declare a national emergency and try to authorize the wall on his own if Congress won’t approve the money he’s asking. “I think we might work a deal, and if we don’t I might go that route,” he said. There’s growing con- cern about the toll the shut- down is taking on every- day Americans, including disruptions in payments to farmers and trouble for home buyers who are seek- ing government-backed mortgage loans — “seri- ous stuff,” according to Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Sen- ate Republican. Trump, California spar over money for wildfire funds By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to withhold money to help California cope with wild- fires, a day after new Gov. Gavin Newsom asked him to double the federal invest- ment in forest management. Trump again suggested poor forest management is to blame for California’s deadly wildfires and said he’s ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stop giving the state money “unless they get their act together.” Fire scientists say cli- mate change, not poor forest management, is the driving contributor to California’s increasingly destructive wildfires, many of which have not been in forests. FEMA could not imme- diately comment because of the government shutdown. Trump has previously threatened to withhold wild- fire payments but never fol- lowed through. Newsom, a Democrat who took office Monday, said Californians affected by wildfires “should not be vic- tims to partisan bickering.” Trump’s tweet came a day after Newsom and AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, is escorted by Thom Porter, right, to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection CalFire Colfax Station on Tuesday in Colfax, Calif. 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A growing number of Republicans are uncomfort- able with the toll the par- tial shutdown is taking, and Trump’s response to it. They are particularly concerned about the administration’s talk of possibly declaring a national emergency at the border, seeing that as an unprecedented claim on the right of Congress to allocate funding except in the most dire circumstances. “I prefer that we get this resolved the old-fashioned way,” Thune said. Trump did not mention the idea of a national emer- gency declaration Tuesday night. A person unautho- rized to discuss the situation said additional “creative options” were being con- sidered, including shifting money from other accounts or tapping other executive authorities for the wall. Trump on Wednes- day floated ideas that have been circulated for a broader immigration over- haul. Trump ally Sen. Lind- sey Graham has suggested a compromise that would include wall funding as well as protecting some immi- grants from deportation. 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