WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has signed legislation to avert another government shutdown and pay for limited fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders says Trump signed the bill at the White House on Friday.
The legislation gives Trump 55 additional miles of border fencing, well short of the 200-plus miles he wanted.
The legislation also keeps parts of the government from shutting down at midnight Friday by providing $333 billion to finance several Cabinet agencies through September.
Trump on Friday declared a national emergency at the southern border and is using his executive authority to tap billions of other government funds to build the wall.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has announced that he will sign a national emergency order to increase security at the U.S.-Mexico border. His administration is confronting the "crisis", he said from the Rose Garden at the White House Friday morning.
Trump said he is concerned with the amount of drugs coming into the U.S. from that location. He said Democrats are incorrect in believing drugs come more from ports of entry along waterways.
Trump also said murders are happening on the other side of the wall in El Paso, Texas, keeping those from happening in the United States. He said that attests to the strength and importance of having a border wall.
He began his speech in the Rose Garden on Friday by talking about the importance of making tariff agreements with China. He said the relationship with China is very good and that it respects the U.S.
Trump also said the U.S. has a good trading relationship with the UK, and that it has strengthened and trade will be increased.
He also said today there will be announcements in the next 24 hours regarding terrorism and efforts made there.
