Shutdown in week 4: Trump ‘won’t back down’

WASHINGTON, DC: With the government mired in shutdown week four, President Donald Trump rejected a short-term legislative fix and dug in for more combat Monday, declaring he would “never ever back down.”

Trump rejected a suggestion to reopen the government for several weeks while negotiations would continue with Democrats over his demands for $5.7 billion for a long, impregnable wall along the United States-Mexico border. The president also edged further away from the idea of trying to declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress.