Article snippet: The White House maintained Friday night that @realDonaldTrump is moving forward building the wall with or without the Democrats. The only outstanding question is whether the Democrats want something or nothing,” Sanders wrote. Sanders posted the remark after Trump tweeted Friday night insisting that the deal he announced earlier in the day to fully reopen the federal government for three weeks “was in no way a concession.” The statement came just hours after Trump said he would sign a short-term funding bill to reopen the government without funds to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Both chambers of Congress easily passed the measure on Friday evening, sending it to Trump to for a signature. The deal ends the more than monthlong government shutdown that began Dec. 22. For weeks, Trump said he would not sign a funding measure that did not include money for a border wall. At various points he suggested that he would declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress to build a border wall, but resisted taking such a move, which would surely prompt legal challenges. The president indicated Friday that if lawmakers do not offer funding for a wall when the three-week measure ends on Feb. 15, another shutdown could begin or he could declare an emergency to build the wall. “We’ll work with the Democrats and negotiate, and if we can’t do that, then we’ll do a – obviously we’ll do the emergency because that’s what it is. It’s a national emergency,” Trump tol... Link to the full article to read more