Compromising hints in US government shutdown?
The White House chief of staff said on Sunday that the US federal government shutdown, now entering its third week, could “drag on a lot longer”.But Mick Mulvaney also raised the possibility of changing the construction materials used to build a barrier on the border with Mexico in order to reach a compromise between President Donald Trump and Democrats.
Mulvaney said negotiations between his staff and congressional Democrats were bogged down in technical requests after the two sides met on Saturday morning.
Large chunks of the federal government shut down on Dec. 22 after lawmakers and the president hit an impasse over Trump’s demands to build a wall. Trump is demanding any funding to keep the federal government operational also
