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President Donald Trump on Thursday congratulated newly elected Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi while standing firm on his hard-line border wall stance during a surprise press briefing at the White House.
The surprise briefing came hours after a swearing-in ceremony for new members of Congress, where Democrats took a majority in the House. It also came as the partial shutdown of the federal government dragged into its 13th day.
After greeting the press, Trump quickly turned the podium over to Brandon Judd, who is reportedly the president of the National Border Patrol Council, who defended Trump’s requirement that any deal to end the government shutdown must include border wall funding.
“There are experts that say that walls don’t work,” Judd said, but “I promise you” that border agents will say otherwise.
