President Donald Trump said at the White House on Monday that he rejected a proposal from Senator Lindsey Graham to reopen the government for a few weeks while negotiations on border wall funding continue.
“That was a suggestion that Lindsey made, but I did reject it. I am not interested,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn ahead of his departure to New Orleans.
Graham, who is one of Trump’s most loyal allies in the Congress, told Fox News on Sunday that he urged the president to reopen the government before “he pulls the plug,” a reference to the president’s option of declaring a national emergency.