Shutdown over Trump wall demand threatens food, tax, transport and more
- President says government closure could last months or years
- Opinion: Trump will lose ‘bigly’ on immigration
The US woke on Saturday to the 15th day of a partial government shutdown that Donald Trump said could go on for months or years, if he is not given funding for a wall on the Mexican border. New talks were due but as the nation digested the president’s rambling, contradictory and combative remarks at a White House press conference on Friday, potentially devastating effects of the shutdown were coming into focus.
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