Meeting. We saw Vice President mike pence walking in with Jared Kushner, Kirstjen Nielsen and mick mulvaney. Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are feeling the impacts. Struggling to make ends meet. As they wait for the government to reopen. When Something Like this happens and youre not going to get your next check, its like, okay, what do i do . Ill have to make a tough choice between, you know, paying my utilities or going and buying groceries for the next two weeks. Lets check in with cnn White House Reporter Sarah Westwood. Hundreds of thousands of people waiting to find out about their next paycheck, sarah, while pence holds that meeting. The big question, you know, will come, when is the government going to reopen . What will they agree upon . Whats next . The answer to that question looks far off. Not a lot of optimism these negotiators will arrive at an agreement today, particularly after both President Trump and those Democratic Congressional leaders emerge from highlev
Democrats saying after that meeting that talks shouldnt move forward until the government reopens. They called that meeting with President Trump contentious. Trump described that same meeting as productive and said the government would remain partially shuttered indefinitely until he gets funding for his border wall and hes holding firm on his demand for that 5. 6 billion sum that House Republicans included in a bill that they passed as one of their last acts in the house majority. Even though previously the president had signaled he might be willing to back down off that sum in order to get a deal. But President Trump has been showing some flexibility when it comes to what might qualify as a wall. Despite promising supports in 2016 an actual concrete wall, President Trump has now hinted that he might try to spin a seethrough barrier of some kind or steel slats as a fulfillment of that campaign promise. He demanded democrats make a deal tweeting, i dont care that most of the workers no