5 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast, thanks for being with us. We start with the latest ripple in the partial Government Shutdown showdown. The raise that many federal employees had expected to take effect in january, that raise is no more. The u. S. President has cancelled it. And this adds insult to injury for more than 800,000 federal employees who are beginning their second week without paychecks. For his part, President Trump says hes sitting at the white house waiting for democrats, he says to come over to work on a deal, though hes been out of sight, hes still on twitter. Our Sarah Westwood has more from the white house. Reporter President Trump is alone in the white house and fuming about democrats refusal to provide any funding for his promised border wall. Hes been trying to blame them for everything, from the deaths of two Migrant Children at the southern border earlier this month to the partial Government Shutdown that he once said he would be proud to own. Now the president
This is the tweet from the president inside the white house from just a couple of hours ago. He wrote, quote, any deaths of children or others at the border are strictly the fault of democrats and their pathetic immigration poiltlicies that al people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They cant. If we had a wall, they wouldnt even try. That wall the president is referring to and arguing about the dollar amount he wants to build it is the reason the government remains partially shut down right now. With hundreds of thousands of american federal workers wondering when theyre going to see their next paycheck. Its now been eight days. The new year is about to start. Theres no realistic end to the shutdown in view. And the president of the United States right now is out of sight inside the white house, tweeting that democrats are to blame when kids at the border die. Lets go to cnns sarah westwood. She is at the white house. Sarah, the president and his pol
I am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck. I will at that time mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. Im not going to blame for you. Trump is growing increasingly frustrated for his failure to get funding for his campaign promise. The chances for a border wall is shrinking by the day, by the hour. We dont need to be on the hill whatever, fighting on when are they going to open the Government Back up. He is calling the cops on me because im taking a phone call at the doubletree hotel. This is basically a case of breathing wall black. Its hur phil. Its humiliating. Im a person and i deserve respect and fair treatment. Quickly after a fair investigation, they fired the two individuals. Announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good sunday to you. The white house is waging a Public Relations war, attempting to shift blame for the Government Shutdown to democrats. Several tweets yesterday where the president blames democrats for fa
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im ryan nobles in today for ana cabrera. President trump so far out of sight this weekend. Hes not athis resortin florida. Hes not taking part in new years celebrations, ask hes certainly not visiting or hosting any federal employees, any of the roughly 2 million american men and women who work for the United States government, especially anyone attached to the nine cabinet departments that are shut down for more than a week now. People working without pay were fold to stay home because the president and Congressional Democrats cant settle on a dollar amount to earmark for a wall on the mexican border. And now this. Quite out of the blue today, President Trump saying in no Uncertain Terms that democrats are to blame when Migrant Children die on the southern border. Those words from the president today, through his twitter feed, he wrote, any deaths of children or others at the border are strictly the fault of democrats and their pathetic immigration p