CCTV News:On January 8, local time, the 18th day after the US government closed its doors, the deadlock over the border wall continued. US President Trump has made another rare move: he announced that he will give a national televised speech in the prime time of the United States and visit the US-Mexico border this week.
At 9 pm local time on the 8th, Trump will deliver a national televised speech in the Oval Office of the White House, which is the first time for Trump.
CNN)7 reported on the 7th that presidents have been using the Oval Office to make major statements for decades. The most recent one was four years ago, when then US President Barack Obama made a national televised speech here because of a mass shooting in California.
Just two hours before Trump announced the news, White House spokesman Sanders just revealed that Trump will visit the US-Mexico border on the 10th. This will be his second visit to the area during his term of office.
Previously, the US Congress and Trump had failed to reach an agreement on the border budget. Trump insisted on allocating $5.7 billion for the construction of the border wall with Mexico, while the Democratic Party only agreed to spend $1.3 billion for this. Therefore, Trump ordered the closure of the US government on December 22, 2018.
On the 7 th, Trump and Schumer, the minority leader of the US Senate, held consultations on this in the Oval Office.
The two sides failed to talk about it. On the 7th, Trump threatened to implement a state of emergency. He said that he could bypass Congress and directly allocate funds to build the wall.
However, where the huge funds for repairing the wall come from has also aroused doubts from the American media.