Donald Trump’s Mexico border wall ‘off the table’, Chuck Schumer says

DONALD Trump’s border wall plan hit a fresh snag after Democrats withdrew a controversial deal, leaving the President fuming.

DONALD Trump’s controversial border wall plan is “off the table” after Democrats reneged on a deal to fund the President’s controversial election promise.

Just one day after United States senators overcame an impasse to end a three-day government shutdown, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said the offer no longer stood.

The news sparked an angry reaction from the President who blasted “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer” for leaving negotiations on immigration in limbo.

Mr Trump met with Mr Schumer last week in the White House as the feuding sides sought an agreement on a broad deal that would have funded the Federal Government’s plan.

It also would have boosted border security and addressed the fate of thousands of young immigrants, known as Dreamers, who were brought to the United States illegally as children.

The deal collapsed, the government suffered a three-day shutdown, and Senate Minority Leader Schumer, who had put substantial border wall funding on the table during his meeting with the President, revoked his offer.

“Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fully understands, especially after his humiliating defeat, that if there is no Wall, there is no DACA,” Mr Trump tweeted, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects nearly 800,000 immigrants from deportation, but expires on March 5.

US Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer has withdrawn his offer to fund Mr Trump’s controversial border wall. Picture: Alex Wong/Getty Images

“We must have safety and security, together with a strong Military, for our great people!”

As part of a broader deal that included government spending, Mr Schumer reportedly offered as much as $25 billion for the wall, which was among the most prominent planks of Mr Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

But when Mr Trump rejected the deal, Mr Schumer pulled the offer.

“We’re going to have to start on a new basis, and the wall offer’s off the table,” Mr Schumer said.

The immigration was now in flux with barely two weeks before a February 8 deadline agreed by both parties to either strike a deal, or take the issue to the Senate floor for debate before so-called Dreamers face mass deportation in March.

Democrats have been seeking a deal to protect the Dreamers, who have been shielded against deportation by DACA, which President Donald Trump halted last year. Picture: Jose Luis Magana/AP

One plan crafted by a bipartisan group of six senators, including Republican Jeff Flake, included Trump’s $1.6 billion request as part of a broader, $2.7 billion border security package that also ends the green-card visa lottery and limits family reunification policy.

“Some of the trade-offs and some of the compromises that are in [that plan] are going to be in any bill,” Mr Flake said But getting a Senate immigration deal through the more conservative House of Representatives will be “very tough,” he added.

“That’s why I think the president’s going to have to be behind it,” Senator Flake said.

Bipartisan immigration negotiations have resumed, with several Capitol Hill meetings on Tuesday that included White House officials.