department campaigned most of their employees next sunday or monday for their next pay period but they will not be paid for the time worked until appropriations are enacted for 2019. the state department plans to reprogram anticipate transfer resources to fund payroll if the shutdown drags on. treasury secretary steve mnuchkin is refusing to testify before the house ways and means committee about the impact of the shutdown. house democrats invited mnuchkin to testify before the panel next thursday to discuss how the shutdown is affecting the treasury department, taxpayers, the irs plan to bring more than half of the agents workforce back into the fold ahead of tax filing season. but enoumuch mnuchkin has been scheduled to travel to davos but that trip has been cancelled. but he has declined to testify saying the committee is better
barrier that border wall over 51% of our border patrol agents workforce are hispanics and we support the wall. we support president trump. and that s just absolutely false that this is a monument for nationalism. steve: you don t follow that. let me ask you about this. the white house budget director russell mouth sent a letter to congressional leaders everything the white house wants. one of the things was $5.7 billion for the construction of a steel barrier on the southwest border. what s important here is they are now calling it a steel barrier and not a big concrete wall. does that bother you or is a steel barrier okay for you? so we already have steel barrier and something that president trump did during his administration is actually tested a number of different walls, physical barriers to include that type of steel fencing. we have been replacing a lot of wall along the border with physical barriers.