Pentagon authorises $1 billion to build Trump’s US-Mexico border wall
Donald Trump had called for using $5.7 billion in taxpayer money to construct more than 200 miles of a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Donald Trump had called for using $5.7 billion in taxpayer money to construct more than 200 miles of a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Trump called for using $5.7 billion in taxpayer money to construct more than 200 miles of a wall along the US-Mexico border.
Trump's speech came ahead of a February 15 deadline for Congress to agree on funding for building a border wall which the president made a key pledge in his election campaign.
The annual speech had been initially scheduled for January 29, but Pelosi suggested Trump postpone the address due to the partial government shutdown.
Traditionally the president's annual speech, scheduled for next Tuesday, January 29, is delivered before a joint session of Congress in the ornate chamber of the House of Representatives.
The Dow Jones, Wall Street's benchmark indicator, lost more than 650 points on Monday, while the S&P500 index, which includes the 500 top publicly-traded companies in the US, fell for the fourth consecutive session.
It remains unclear how long the shutdown will last, but Trump expressed hope late Friday night that it 'will not last long,' after earlier saying he was ready for just that.
