Trump says he won't budge on shutdown without border wall money

President Donald Trump said he won’t relent on the partial government shutdown unless Congress funds his proposed border wall, and wouldn’t say whether he’d accept less than $5 billion for the project.

“Whatever it takes,” he told reporters accompanying him Wednesday on an unannounced visit to US troops deployed at an air base in Iraq. “We’re going to have a wall. We’re going to have safety.”

A deal to fund shuttered government departments still seemed out of reach Wednesday, the fifth day of the partial shutdown. The Republican House leadership informed members not to expect any votes on Thursday, with no indication