Trump vows not to reopen federal government until wall funding is secured

President Trump said Tuesday that he intends to keep the federal government closed until he secures the desired funding from Congress for his promised border wall. About 25 percent of the government is shut down for the fourth straight day, with Congress at a stalemate over Trump’s demand for $5 billion in wall construction money. “I can’t tell you when the government is going to reopen,” he said. “I can tell you it’s not going to be open until we have a wall, a fence, whatever they’d like to call it. I’ll call it whatever they want. But it’s all the same thing. It’s a barrier from people pouring into our country.”