It should be a "big announcement" on the shutdown and the border with Mexico, but in the end, US President Donald Trump made few concessions to the opposition. During a speech in the White, he announced that he wanted to meet the Democrats in the deportation protection for young migrants, but he maintains his demand for $ 5.7 billion for the construction of a border wall.
"I am here today to break the fall and give Congress a way to end the shutdown and solve the crisis along the southern border." Trump announced in September 2017 that it would end the so-called Daca program for the protection of illegally immigrated children and their parents within six months. Now he wants to offer these migrants more protection.
House of Representatives rejects compromise in advance
But Trump's compromise seems to be a jaw-dropping and stagnating negotiations. Even before his speech, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the offer was "unacceptable," a "non-starter." To get the required votes of the Senate is very unlikely.
Trump's speech could have brought movement into the stalled budget dispute. According to the New York Times, the Democrats have also made a compromise proposal. Pelosi announced that with their majority in the House of Representatives, they would pass several bills next week that would reopen the government.
According to them, they want to spend more than a billion dollars on border security in the budget law, but the money should not be used to build a wall. The US President, however, firmly adheres to the blueprints - and justifies them with protection against drug offenses and rape. The designs have no chance of success, especially since Trump's Republicans in the Senate - the second chamber of Congress - have a majority.
For the past four weeks, parts of the government apparatus have been shut down in the US because the dispute over Trump's request for a wall on the border with Mexico did not lead to the passing of a budget law. Trump refuses to sign a law that does not include money for the wall. 800,000 federal employees are now either on forced leave or have to work without salary.