President Trump Donald John TrumpAmazon's European workers go on strike for Black Friday GOP makes inroads with Hispanics in Florida Romney to host PAC fundraiser: report MORE in an early-morning tweet the day after Thanksgiving demanded funding for a wall at the southern border as part of a "major Border Security package." 
 
 "Republicans and Democrats MUST come together, finally, with a major Border Security package, which will include funding for the Wall," Trump wrote from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. 
 
 Republicans and Democrats MUST come together, finally, with a major Border Security package, which will include funding for the Wall. After 40 years of talk, it is finally time for action. Fix the Border, for once and for all, NOW! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 23, 2018 
 
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 Trump has kept the door open to a potential government shutdown if an upcoming deal to fund parts of the government does not include funding for a border wall. Congress has until Dec. 7 to fund the rest of the government after lawmakers punted on seven of the 12 individual funding bills before the end-of-the-fiscal-year deadline. 
 
 Trump over the summer had struck a less bipartisan tone as he told Republican lawmakers to "stop wasting their time" trying to work with Democrats on immigration until they took back more seats in the House and Senate. 
 
 But the GOP lost the House in this month's midterm elections, and liberal lawmakers are vehemently opposed to funding Trump's long-promised border wall. 
 
 Trump in another tweet touted "bipartisan" possibilities for his other legislative priority, criminal justice reform. 
 
 The criminal justice reform bill that Trump has been touting has caused divisions within the GOP. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told the president last week that he did not believe there would be enough floor time to pass the measure in the lame-duck session. ||||| President Trump pledged Thursday to do “whatever it takes to get border security,” deepening an impasse over border wall funding barely a week from a crucial deadline for a partial government shutdown to begin. 
 
 In a video posted on Twitter, Trump attacked Democrats as “absolute hypocrites” and claimed they’ve supported funding border barriers in the past but won’t do so now because of their opposition to him. 
 
 The video showed images of people rushing the border and included clips of Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and former president Barack Obama speaking in opposition to illegal immigration and in favor of border security. 
 
 “We need to have the wall. We need border security. Whatever it takes to get border security, I will do it,” Trump says in the video. “I pledged that a long time ago, and I will pledge it always.” 
 
 The video had a caption saying “Let’s not do a shutdown, Democrats — do what’s right for the American People!” 
 
 The video came two days after Trump declared during an Oval Office meeting with Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that he would be “proud” to shut down the government to get the wall money he wants. 
 
 Since then, Democrats have attacked him relentlessly on the issue, with Schumer repeatedly accusing the president of throwing a “temper tantrum” as he threatens to lead the government into a partial shutdown in pursuit of what critics say is a costly and unnecessary wall. 
 
 Trump is demanding $5 billion for his border wall for 2019, while Democrats are unwilling to give him more than $1.3 billion for border fencing. Democrats said Thursday that they won’t budge. 
 
 “President Trump is willing to throw a temper tantrum and shut down the government unless he gets his way,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “I want to be crystal clear: There will be no additional appropriations to pay for the border wall. It’s done.” 
 
 Funding for federal agencies including the Homeland Security Department runs out Dec. 21 at midnight, unless Congress passes a spending bill before then and Trump signs it. Other agencies affected include the Justice, Interior and Agriculture departments, totaling 25 percent of government spending that is controlled by Congress. 
 
 Other major agencies, including the Pentagon, have already been funded through September. 
 
 On Capitol Hill, confusion and uncertainty reigns about how the dispute will end. 
 
 Lawmakers headed home for a long weekend Thursday no closer to a solution, leading one key lawmaker to suggest that Congress might have to fall back on passing another short-term spending bill, kicking the can down the road once again because of an inability to compromise. The Homeland Security Department and other agencies are already operating under a two-week short-term spending bill. 
 
 Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) suggested Congress might have to extend funding until Dec. 26 or even Jan. 3 — right before a new Congress is sworn in and Democrats take control of the House. Shelby said other options could include short-term extensions until later in January, February or May, or all the way through the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30, which is the solution Democrats have proposed. 
 
 “We’re at an impasse,” Shelby said. “Something’s going to happen, or we’re going to have a CR or a shutdown.” A CR is a “continuing resolution” that extends government spending at existing levels. 
 
 However, Democrats said no one had discussed the shorter-term options with them. 
 
 House members are not scheduled to return to the Capitol until Wednesday evening, two days before the shutdown deadline, prompting sniping from some senators. 
 
 “I don’t understand why people don’t come to work and work all the way through December when the taxpayers are paying them,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.). “I mean, finish your job.” 
 
 Trump also claimed in an earlier tweet Thursday that “money we save” from a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada would make good on his long-standing promise to have Mexico pay for the wall — an assertion backed by no verifiable evidence. 
 
 “I often stated, ‘One way or the other, Mexico is going to pay for the Wall,’ ” Trump wrote on Twitter. “This has never changed. Our new deal with Mexico (and Canada), the USMCA, is so much better than the old, very costly & anti-USA NAFTA deal, that just by the money we save, MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!” 
 
 Mexican officials have said there was no discussion in the trade deal negotiations of mechanisms under which Mexico would pay for the wall. 
 
 Schumer and Pelosi both ridiculed Trump for his claim. 
 
 “It doesn’t make any sense,” Pelosi told reporters at a news conference. “Maybe he doesn’t understand how a trade agreement works. . . . I think the Oval Office is an evidence-free zone.” 
 
 Pelosi, who is likely to become House speaker in January, also pointed out that Congress has yet to ratify Trump’s new trade deal. 
 
 Schumer, meanwhile, suggested on the Senate floor Thursday that if Mexico is truly funding the wall, Congress does not need to spend any money on it. 
 
 Trump spent much of the 2016 campaign promising American voters that Mexico would somehow pay for the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a demand that angered Mexican officials but enthralled his supporters. Since becoming president, though, Trump has sought U.S. taxpayer money to fund the wall’s construction and threatened to shut down parts of the U.S. government if lawmakers do not acquiesce. 
 
 David J. Lynch contributed to this report. ||||| The White House on Tuesday indicated it wants to avoid a partial government shutdown over President Trump Donald John TrumpREAD: Transcript of James Comey's interview with House Republicans Klobuchar on 2020: ‘I do think you want voices from the Midwest’ Israel boycott fight roils Democrats in year-end spending debate MORE's demand for border wall funding. 
 
 In an interview with Fox News, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump has “other ways to get to that $5 billion” for the wall. 
 
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 “At the end of the day we don’t want to shut down the government, we want to shut down the border from illegal immigration,” she said. 
 
 The comments come just days before the Dec. 21 deadline when funding for seven government agencies is set to lapse. 
 
 Trump had been demanding $5 billion in new funding for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but Democrats have repeatedly rebuffed his request. 
 
 During a dramatic meeting last week with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro PelosiIsrael boycott fight roils Democrats in year-end spending debate McConnell predicts no shutdown: Trump 'flexible' on border deal Ocasio-Cortez had highest percentage of small donors in midterms: report MORE (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Charles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerMake Trump own the shutdown over his ill-advised border wall More than a tantrum McConnell’s marijuana conundrum: Cory Gardner MORE (D-N.Y.), Trump threatened to trigger a partial government shutdown if he does not get the money and vowed to take responsibility for the political consequences. 
 
 Sanders is scheduled to hold her first briefing of the month from the White House on Tuesday afternoon, where she could elaborate on Trump's position. 
 
 The spokeswoman said the White House is exploring other ways to get funding for the wall, including possibly using money designated for the military. 
 
 “There’s certainly a number of different funding sources that we’ve identified that we can use that we can couple with the money that would be given through congressional appropriations that would help us get to that $5 billion that the president needs in order to protect our borders,” Sanders said. 
 
 The White House's latest position resembles a deal offered by Schumer during last week's meeting when he urged Trump to accept a Homeland Security funding bill that provides $1.6 billion for barriers and other measures along the border. 
 
 “We’ve been in constant contact. Our team was on the phone with Senate teams this morning, both from the comms perspective as well as the policy teams,” Sanders said. 
 
 Trump and Congress have been locked in a stalemate for weeks over the president's demand for $5 billion in wall funding, raising fears in Washington of a partial shutdown before Christmas and New Year's. 
 
 The tensions reached a fever pitch last week, when Trump told Schumer in the Oval Office he would be “proud to shut down the government for border security.” 
 
 “I will take the mantle,“ the president said. “I will be the one to shut it down, I'm not going to blame you for it.” 
 
 Congressional Republicans complained those comments hurt their leverage with Democrats because it forced them to shoulder the blame for a shutdown. 
 
 There were no signs of a potential compromise on Monday as a plan from the White House that Senate Republicans said they expected never emerged. 
 
 Trump again vented his frustration about illegal immigration in a Tuesday morning tweet. 
 
 “Illegal immigration costs the United States more than 200 Billion Dollars a year. How was this allowed to happen?” he wrote. 
 
 But the president is also facing economic headwinds, including a stock-market plunge that appears to be fueled in part by investors' fears over a possible shutdown along with his trade war with China and a potential rate hike by the Federal Reserve. 
 
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 Trump also revealed the economy is weighing on his mind on Tuesday, when he implored the Fed not to raise rates — another break from norms dictating the president should not comment on central bank policy. 
 
 “I hope the people over at the Fed will read today’s Wall Street Journal Editorial before they make yet another mistake. Also, don’t let the market become any more illiquid than it already is. Stop with the 50 B’s. Feel the market, don’t just go by meaningless numbers. Good luck!” he tweeted. 
 
 Brett Samuels contributed. 
 
 Updated at 11:37 a.m.
– The AP reports that President Trump hit the links on his Florida golf course the day after Thanksgiving, but before he did, he rehashed a topic that's long been on his mind, with seeming impatience. "Republicans and Democrats MUST come together, finally, with a major Border Security package, which will include funding for the Wall," he tweeted, referring to the border barrier he wants erected between the US and Mexico. "After 40 years of talk, it is finally time for action. Fix the Border, for once and for all, NOW!" The Hill notes there's a Dec. 7 deadline Congress must meet to fund the remaining parts of government that are still not funded, and Trump has said he'd be OK with shutting down the government if the wall isn't included in any upcoming funding packages. "Could there be a shutdown? There certainly could, and it will be about border security, of which the wall is a part," the president told reporters Thursday, per Reuters, which notes Democrats, who just gained control of the House in the midterms, may now be less amenable to giving in to Trump on this matter. (Trump also threatened he could shut down "the whole border" if he had to.)