government while talks continue. trump saying that meeting was productive, but signaling willingness to keep the government partially shuttered until he gets funding for the border wall and holding firm at the $5.6 billion sum that house republicans passed in a bill that died in the senate, one of the last legislative acts when they had control of the house majority. trump is increasingly flexible it seems what would qualify as a wall, steel slats, see through barrier, seeming to benld d on fulfillment of a campaign promise. trump is reprising a claim of ideology of furloughed workers as he calls on democrats to make a deal tweeting i don t care most of the workers not being paid are democrats, i want to stop the shutdown as soon as we re in agreement on strong border security. i am in the white house ready to go, where are the dems. this is misleading because heads of federal employees unions pointed out that workers not getting paid now belong to both