Border Wall

Rep. Henry Cuellar of Laredo said both sides could work out a compromise before the Feb. 15 deadline.

"Now in any normal administration it would be insane to suggest...even joke about the president of the United States seeing stuff in a movie ... and maybe thinking it was real," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said.

"I think the idea of a wall in and of itself is a symbol. It's not a real tool," former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told Newsweek.

The comedian poked fun at the origins of some of the president's wilder claims about migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Trump subjected "millions of people to needless suffering and pain," the host said on his show "Late Night with Seth Meyers."

"The Late Show" host also described Trump's negotiation tactics as the definition of "insanity."

"It's my great honor to accept," Trump said on Monday. "We have a great story to tell and yet, great goals to achieve!"

A pair of women married to U.S. Border Patrol agents sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, inviting her to visit the Texas border with Mexico and see it firsthand, then understand why her opposition to a barrier was misguided.

"Among those who experienced the largest and most direct negative effects are federal workers who faced delayed compensation and private-sector entities that lost business," the Congressional Budget Office reported.

"Remember, immigration – illegal immigration – is at historical lows. There is no crisis at the border," former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart said.

The president questioned how anybody could believe he wouldn't deliver his long-promised wall on the southern border.

Florida senator opposes declaring a national emergency.

Coulter has turned on the president over his failure to secure funding for his border wall.

Another government shutdown is "certainly an option," the president said.

A lawyer representing the fired undocumented workers said he wasn't "buying" that the Trump Organization was not previously aware of the employees' immigration status.

Kushner was one of the leading figures attempting to reach a deal over funding for Trump's border wall but failed in his assignment.

They "almost seem to have like a sexual fetish for a cement wall …  a big beautiful erection of a wall," S.E. Cupp said, taking aim at Ann Coulter and others.

"We lost the election in November and now we've lost six weeks to get our strength back, to get our position back," GOP Representative Peter T. King of New York said.

"So let me get this straight, you were convinced Donald Trump was the guy, you voted for him…and now you're finding out he's a lying con man?" Maher asked his guest.

The overall cost of the shutdown just surpassed the amount of money Trump repeatedly requested from Congress to construct his long-promised border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

In a speech on Friday, the president said he will shut down the government again or declare a national emergency if a border wall deal isn't made by Feb. 15.

The Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, which President Trump has signed, guarantees that federal workers will swiftly receive back pay.

"Overall, more Americans now oppose expanding the U.S.-Mexico border wall since last asked in 2016," the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reported.

"This is your fault," Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson reportedly told Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at a private Republican luncheon.

There are still hurdles to jump when it comes to hashing out the details.

It's unclear where lawmakers and the president will go from here in order to reopen the government.

Most of the group was composed of family units, according to a CBP spokesperson.

A Washington Post report describes the rising influence of the president's son-in-law.

Former cartel members testified that narcotics were hidden in shipping containers, passenger cars with hidden compartments, trucks, tanker trains and even cans of jalapeños.

"That is not a Christian gesture," the pope has said about the president's claim that Mexico would pay for the wall.