New York Daily News

Mexico walled in, says Donald

- Christophe­r Brennan

PRESIDENT TRUMP just can’t get over his wall.

Pressed Monday on his claims that he’ll shut down the government if he doesn’t getting funding for a border wall, the President maintained Mexico will pay for the estimated $20 billion structure.

“One way or another, Mexico is going to pay for the wall. It may be through reimbursem­ent, but one way or another Mexico will pay for the wall,” he said at a White House news conference.

Trump went on to say that “tremendous drugs” were coming into the country over the Rio Grande, and that it is “imperative” to have a wall to stop the traffic.

Mexico has repeatedly said that it will not pay for the wall, and repeated those assurances after a Trump tweet this weekend by saying the idea was a no-go “under any circumstan­ces.”

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