Pelosi remains defiant on wall funding as Trump seeks fresh talks
- Nancy Pelosi: ‘A wall is an immorality’
- Trump: ‘You can call it a barrier … call it whatever you want’
As a partial US government shutdown hit the two-week mark on Friday, Donald Trump once again invited congressional leaders to meet him at the White House, amid an impasse over his demands for taxpayers’ money for a border wall, and Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives.
The president has invited leaders from both parties back to the White House just two days after a meeting on border security in the Situation Room did not resolve matters, and a day after Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House and Democrats passed legislation to reopen the government.