President Donald Trump is scheduled to make a statement on Friday from the Rose Garden of the White House. The statement comes as talks to end a partial government shutdown remain at an impasse.
Earlier in the day Trump met with congressional Democrats for a two-hour meeting that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., described as "contentious."
The president threatened to keep a quarter of the government closed "for a very long period of time — months or even years" — until he gets the funding, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said.