Weeks after shutdown, Trump State of the Union to call for bipartisanship
After the dreadful government shutdown, President Donald Trump plans to issue a call for bipartisanship cooperation during his State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday, according to an administration official. "Together, we can break decades of political stalemate, we can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions and unlock the extraordinary promise of America's future," Trump will say, said the off. "This vision is ours to make."
The speech which was delayed when Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Trump he wasn't welcome to deliver the speech while parts of the federal government weren't open. "Resistance" is the word many Democrats have used to describe their opposition to Trump's policies and his presidency. Still, the official said Trump will try to identify areas of common ground that he can share with Democrats, who won control of the House of Representatives and who maintain enough votes in the Senate to block legislation.To that end, Trump will "try to provide a bipartisan way forward" on immigration, the official said. "We were getting nowhere with the Democrats...I think Nancy Pelosi should be ashamed of herself," he said of the House speaker, a California Democrat.Trump restates that he still plans to build the wall with or without Congress, where a joint House-Senate committee is currently debating border-security legislation, and he has said repeatedly that he might declare a national emergency to further that aim.
While emergency powers would not give him money to fund a wall - Congress retains the power of the purse - he may transfer cash from existing appropriations to build it.
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