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result. anytime they come up against another funding deadline later in the year, if they give him anything on the policy front now, he ll likely go back to this strategy and they want to disabuse him or of that notion. that being said, house democrats will vote on their own proposal, a package of six bills, plus about a billion dollars in border security that doesn t include wall money. saying look, we can pass things to reopen the government. they ve done it multiple times, they re going to do it again and emphasize their border security priorities. bottom lip line, this is still at an impasse. no clear pathway forward, out of this yet. i guess the big question going into this week is will the president s proposal jar those rank and file senators with republican and democrat who have been trying to find a way out, but at this moment, that hasn t happened and something else i ve learned today. the white house and democratic leaders still have not spoken since the president s proposal w
the top u.s. democrat house speaker nancy pelosi rejected the deal before it was even offered. she said the president was just recycling old ideas that had already been turned down. the partial shutdown of the u.s. government is now in its 30th day. cnn s sarah westwood has more from the white house. reporter: president trump on saturday rolling out a proposal that he described as an attempt to break the logjam that has dragged this partial government shutdown nearly a month. the president proposing from the white house a deal that would net him $5.7 billion in funding for his border wall, as well as millions more for other border security priorities, like more immigration judges, more detention space at the border, even more border patrol agents. in exchange, trump says he would agree to a one-time, three-year renewal of daca protections for the young undocumented immigrants known as dreamers and
priority locations. the top u.s. democrat, house speaker nancy pelosi, rejected the deal before it was even offered. she said the president was just recycling old ideas that had already been turned down. in the meantime, some 800,000 federal workers still waiting and wondering what happens next. this partial government shutdown lingers on now in its 30th day. our sarah westwood has more now from the white house. reporter: president trump on saturday rolling out a proposal that he described as an attempt to break the logjam that has dragged this partial government shutdown nearly a month. the president proposing from the white house a deal that would net him $5.7 billion in funding for his border wall, as well as millions more for other border security priorities, like more immigration judges, more detention space at the border, even more border patrol agents. in exchange trump says he would agree to a one-time, three-year
proposal. well, president trump rolling out tonight what he describes as an attempt to break the log jam that has allowed this government shutdown to stretch nearly a month now. this would get him $5.7 billion in funding for his border wall as well as funding for other border security priorities. like more border patrol agents, more immigration judges, more detention space at the border. in exchange, he said he would agree to a one-time, three-year renewal of those daca protections for the young undocumented immigrants known as dreamers. he said he would agree to a three-year extension of temporary protected status for those 300,000 immigrants who are covered under that status now but who are facing the status expiring. of course the white house is defending this proposal against criticism from both sides of the aisle. responding to charges from the