Agency and now more than 14,000 people from that department join the hundreds of thousands of Government Employees who have been furloughed. Meanwhile President Trump and congress are no closer to reaching a deal. The president s response a torrent of tweets threatening to shut down the southern border if funding for a wall is not approved. Lets bring in boris sanchez. Who is the president negotiating with . Reporter thats a good question. Its not clear that either side is really talking to each other right now. Yesterday you had the incoming acting chief of choice, Mick Mulvaney here on the north lawn of the white house telling reporters that talks had broken down so its not clear that republicans are speaking to democrats about a deal right now. We should point out the president last night left the white house to have dinner at the Vice President s residence. He was joined by mike pence, jared kushner, and Mick Mulvaney as well. Likely the shutdown the topic of conversation there. Bu