Tag: Mexican Wall

• Friday, February 15th 2019 - 08:27 UTC

  Trump ready to declare a national emergency to fund border wall: “lawless act”, warn Democrats

  

  US President Donald Trump is to declare a national emergency to fund his planned border wall with Mexico, the White House has said. He will sign a border security bill to avert a government shutdown - but also act to bypass Congress and use military funds for the wall, a statement said.

• Monday, February 4th 2019 - 07:44 UTC

  United States sending more troops to the border with Mexico

  

  The US is to send an additional 2,000 troops to its border with Mexico, the Pentagon has announced. It will bring the total number of troops stationed on the southern border to about 4,300. The Pentagon said the soldiers would help border-patrol agents, carry out surveillance work and install miles of razor wire.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 08:23 UTC

  Trump yields and agrees to lift 35-day government shutdown...until 15 February

  

  President Donald Trump agreed under mounting pressure on Friday to end a 35-day-old partial U.S. government shutdown without getting the US$5.7 billion he had demanded from Congress for a border wall, handing a political victory to Democrats.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Government shutdown persists as Trump and Democrats clash over US/Mexican border wall funding

  

  United States president Donald Trump has demanded funding for his long-promised US-Mexico border wall to halt “a growing humanitarian and security crisis”. But in his first TV address to the nation from the Oval Office, Mr Trump did not declare a national emergency to bypass Congress and build the barrier.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  US taxpayers will receive refunds, pledges Trump despite government shutdown

  

  Millions of US taxpayers will still receive refunds despite an ongoing partial government shutdown, the White House has said. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has previously delayed tax refunds during a government shutdown.

• Friday, August 4th 2017 - 06:45 UTC

  Transcripts show Trump admonishing Peña Nieto for saying publicly Mexico will not pay for the border wall

  

  United States president Donald Trump urged the Mexican president to stop publicly saying he would not pay for a proposed border wall, according to transcripts. Mr. Trump admonished Enrique Peña Nieto for publicly denouncing the wall during a 27 January phone call, transcripts obtained by the Washington Post show.

• Saturday, July 1st 2017 - 13:35 UTC

  Trump announces new oil pipeline to Mexico right “under the wall”

  

  US President Donald Trump announced the construction of a pipeline to carry oil to Mexico through the border near Peñitas, Texas, which would run under the infamous wall he has promised to build.