"Shutdown": Donald Trump backs down under pressure

The president agreed Friday to reopen the federal government until February 15 during border talks.

Rarely did Donald Trump appear to be defeated like this Friday, Jan. 25, on the lawn of the Rose Garden at the White House. On the 35th day of the "shutdown", the shutdown of part of the federal government for lack of budget, the president accepted the only compromise offered by the democratic opposition, without the slightest concession for its "wall" on the Mexican border.

He has signed a temporary funding measure to pay public servants and put the administration back to work until February 15. It does not provide any funds for the construction of the "wall" whose virtues it once again extolled: neither the 5.7 billion initially requested - the bone of contention at the origin of the "shutdown" - nor even "the advance" in prorata "begged since Wednesday for price of a compromise. In exchange, the Democrats are only committed to negotiating "a package of measures on internal security" in ad hoc parliamentary committees that promise strong exchanges. If, during the next three weeks, no bipartisan agreement is found, Trump threatens to return to the same means of pressure: a new paralysis of the government or the use of its executive powers, "a very powerful alternative, but that I I did not want to use at this stage.

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