特朗普總統力爭邊境牆撥款，不惜政府關門

U.S. President Donald Trump says he would "totally be willing" to partially shut down the government next week if he does not get more funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to thwart Central American migrants from entering the country.

The U.S. leader told the Politico news site he is insisting that $5 billion for wall construction be included in measures Congress needs to approve to keep several federal agencies open after their current spending authority expires December 7.

Opposition Democrats have said they will approve $1.6 billion for the wall, leaving the two sides far apart.

"I don't do anything ... just for political gain," Trump said. "But I will tell you, politically speaking, that issue is a total winner. People look at the border, they look at the rush to the police, they look at the rock throwers and really hurting the people, the very brave border patrol folks. I think that it's a tremendous issue, but much more importantly, is really needed. So, we have to have border security."

Trump was referencing a Sunday confrontation at the border in which migrants hurled rocks at U.S. Border Patrol officers, with agents repelling the crowd with tear gas.

Even as Trump voiced his determination to win congressional approval for the $5 billion in initial funding for a wall estimated to cost more than $20 billion, he told The Washington Post in a separate interview that he could find other ways to build the wall or add more security along the border.

"I think that's been shown better than ever in the last short period of two weeks that we need a wall," Trump told the newspaper. "I see the Democrats are going to want to do something, because they understand, too. Those pictures are very bad for the Democrats. We're not having a wall because of the Democrats. We need Democrat votes to have a wall."

House Speaker Paul Ryan, leader of the current majority Republican bloc in the House of Representatives, told reporters Wednesday that after the nationwide congressional elections in early November, "hopefully ... Democrats realize that a secure border should not be a Republican thing, it shouldn't be a Democrat thing, it's just good for the country. To actually secure our border."美國總統特朗普表示，如果他不能得到更多撥款建造美墨邊境牆，以阻止中美洲移民進入美國，他將“完全願意”部分政府部門下週關門。

這位美國領導人對Politico新聞網站表示，他堅持要將50億美元的建牆撥款納入需要國會批准的、維持一些政府機構在12月7日預算授權到期之後繼續運營的撥款案中。

反對黨民主黨人表示，他們將批准16億美元用於建造隔離牆，與總統要求相距甚遠

特朗普說：“我做任何都不會只是爲了獲取政治利益。” 他說，“但我告訴你，從政治上講，建牆這件事是皆大歡喜。人們看着邊境，看着警方的行動，看着投擲石塊的人，那真的傷了人，那些非常勇敢的邊境巡邏隊員。我認爲這建牆是一個巨大的問題，但更重要的是，是確實需要。我們必須擁有邊境安全。“

特朗普總統指的是星期天在邊境地區發生的對抗，當時移民們向美國邊境巡邏隊員投擲石塊，特工們用催淚瓦斯驅逐人羣。

儘管特朗普表示他決心贏得國會批准的50億美元的初始資金用於建造預計將花費超過200億美元的邊境牆，他在另一次華盛頓郵報的採訪中說，他可以找到其他方法來建牆或加強邊境安全。

特朗普表示，“我認爲，過去兩週的短暫時間裏比以往任何時候都顯示出我們需要一堵牆。”他說， “我看到民主黨人會想要做點什麼，因爲他們也明白。這些圖片對民主黨來說非常糟糕。我們沒有邊境強是因爲民主黨人，我們需要民主黨人投票才能建起一堵牆。”

衆議院議長瑞安週三告訴記者，在11月初的國會中期選舉結束之後，“希望......民主黨人意識到安全的邊界不應該只是共和黨的事情，也不應該只是一個民主黨人的事情，這是對國家有利的事，要真正保護我們的邊界。”