"One thing that I think we can agree on is we shouldn't shut down the government over a dispute, and you want to shut it down," Schumer told Trump.
Schumer told reporters outside the White House after the meeting that the bottom line is that if Trump sticks to the 5-billion-dollar wall budget request, "he will get no wall and he will get a shutdown."
"The bottom line is very, very simple. That is, we want border security. We offered him border security. But Americans know that the wall, not paid for by Mexico anymore, is not the way to border security," the congressman said.
He was referring to the 1.3 billion dollars the Democrats agreed to offer for fencing and other border security measures.
The meeting was originally arranged to be held entirely behind closed doors, but Trump invited reporters to enter the Oval Office at the beginning of the meeting.
Pelosi said she didn't think the three of them, meeting for the first time in more than a year, should be having a debate in front of the press.
"We came in here in good faith and we are entering into this kind of a discussion in the public view," said Pelosi, who referred to the possible government shutdown a "Trump shutdown," a term Trump instantly asked her to clarify.
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