Trump Threatens to Bust Border Deal as Shutdown Deadline Nears
- Lawmakers return to Washington facing tight Friday deadline
- Trump says he’s considering an emergency declaration over wall
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Congress has only a few days left to come up with an agreement on border security spending to prevent a government shutdown and may yet see the process upended once President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Trump in recent days has repeatedly declared the negotiations a waste of time and said Feb. 1 that his speech to a joint session of Congress would reveal more of his own plans. He suggested that might include a politically and legally fraught emergency declaration to circumvent Congress to begin building a border wall.