The entire shutdown only reduced federal spending by 7%.

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Mulvaney: Trump to Secure Border ‘With or Without Congress’
Safety of American people president's first priority, he says



President Trump will secure the border, whether through Congress or a national emergency, according to White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.

“At the end of the day, the president is going to secure the border one way or another,” Mulvaney said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“We have been hoping for months to do it through legislation with Democrats because that’s the right way for the government to function, but at the end of the day the president’s commitment is to defend the nation, and he’ll do it either with or without Congress,” he said.

Ultimately, he said, Trump hopes he doesn’t have to shut down the government again.

“It’s not a desired end,” he said.

"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861