and homeland security personnel missing paychecks. democrats have put forward strong, smart and effective border security solutions in the bipartisan committee, while the president still refuses to take a second shutdown off the table. then goes on to say the president's wild and unpredictable representations about border security do nothing to make our country safer. trump has called that committee a waste of time. coming out of those talks, democrats did put their opening offer on the table wednesday. while it included billions of dollars for border security provisions, there was not one penny in there for the president's border wall. not even for repairs of existing fencing. basically nothing that the president could spin as a victory. so, with just two weeks left in this negotiating period until government funding runs out again, trump has reprised his thread to declare a national emergency if he doesn't get funding for the border call,