According to one of the interlocutors of the portal, Mulvaney wanted to reach a compromise with the Democrats regarding the amount needed to build the wall.
Trump, as specified, requires the construction of the construction of $ 5.7 billion, while Democrats are ready to allocate only $ 1.3 billion.
The White House chief of staff called on the parties to find a "middle ground", in connection with which the American leader spoke rudely to him, stressing in sharp form that he had spoiled everything.
Another source of the portal noted that those present at the meeting had the impression that the tactics of Mulvaney at the negotiations had angered Trump.
However, the source Axios in the White House said that these assumptions did not correspond to reality, adding that the president and the head of the departmental staff subsequently joked about the incident.
On December 22, the work of the American government was partially suspended, since the Democrats and Republicans could not agree on a budget, including because of the leader’s demands to allocate funds for the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico.
Later, Trump addressed the nation and stated the need to ensure security on the southern border of the country.
An expert from the Center for Security Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a political scientist Konstantin Blokhin, commented on the speech in an interview with the NNS.